Commonwealth v. Ragone’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Commonwealth v. Novak (1959), Commonwealth v. Iacobino (1935)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 93 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Trunk · Commonwealth v. Nicely · Commonwealth v. Bubnis · Commonwealth v. Scovern · Commonwealth v. Jones
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The same proceedings may be had, if any person indicted for an offense shall, upon arraignment, be found to be a lunatic, by a jury lawfully impaneled for the purpose, or if, upon the trial of any person so indicted, such person shall appear to the jury ... to be a lunatic, the Court shall direct such finding to be recorded, and may proceed as aforesaid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . But this rule has, in exceptional cases and to safeguard basic human rights, been construed as not being one of unyielding inflexibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.