Commonwealth v. Blondin’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Gannett Co Inc v. A (1979), Commonwealth v. McLaughlin (1973)
8 federal appellate · 65 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 In re Oliver · Betts v. Brady · Bute v. People of State of Illinois · Uveges v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Foster v. People of State of Illinois
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is nothing in the Constitution of this Commonwealth corresponding to the right to a 'public trial' expressly granted by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The allowance of leading questions is almost wholly within the discretion of the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even if the statute could be interpreted as permitting such exclusion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gannett Co Inc v. A
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.