Commonwealth v. McGarty’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tavares (1982), Commonwealth v. Gould (1980)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 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. Welosky · Commonwealth v. DiStasio · Commonwealth v. Bellino · Commonwealth v. Sheppard · Commonwealth v. Bartolini
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We assume that the judge could have granted the motion under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 277, § 56. But the matter was discretionary. Nothing in the medical report and nothing in the record indicated that the defendant was not mentally responsible. We find no error in the denial of the motion.”
2 later decisions 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.