Commonwealth v. Bellino’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hoffer (1978), Commonwealth v. Boyd (1975)
83 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Patton v. United States · Betts v. Brady · Brown v. State of Mississippi
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A witness’s training and experience may well qualify him to give an opinion in reference to a problem which he has never before encountered m precisely the same form.” Hardiman v. Brown, 162 Mass. 585. Commonwealth v. Bellino, 320 Mass. 635, 638 .”
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.