Commonwealth v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Appleby (1980), Commonwealth v. Burke (1983)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 81 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 Commonwealth v. Trefethen · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. Bartolini · Commonwealth v. Noxon · Simpson v. Massachusetts
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled that to commit a battery upon a person with such violence that bodily harm is likely to result is unlawful, and consent thereto is immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the [victim].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with malicious intent to maim or disfigure”
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.