Commonwealth v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 district · 15 state decisions
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 Crocker v. Justices of the Superior Court · Suell v. Derricott · Carpenter v. State · Rust v. Low · People v. Garnett
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Misprision of felony. — Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.” 18 USC § 4 ,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[N]ot every principle of the English common law became part of the common law of Massachusetts. Some doctrines were judged inapplicable to the `new state and condition' of the settlers in this country. .. ."”
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.