Commonwealth v. Tilley’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Santiago (1997), Commonwealth v. Borans (1979)
28 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 Kirby v. United States · State v. Gargano · People v. . Kief · Commonwealth v. Cabot · Der Minasian v. Aetna Life Insurance
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n a criminal case the record of conviction or acquittal in another case to which the defendant was not a party is not admissible to establish the truth of any fact involved in such conviction or acquittal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is an elementary principle of justice, that one [person] shall not be affected by another's act or omission, to which he is a stranger.”
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.