Commonwealth v. Flax’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1996 · most notably Green v. United States (1957), Commonwealth v. Jones (1974)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 104 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. Colandro · Commonwealth v. Deitrick · Commonwealth v. Yeager · Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Carroll
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a new trial is had on this murder indictment the defendant cannot, of course, be tried for murder in the first degree. The verdict of the jury in the trial now being reviewed was equivalent to defendant's acquittal of that crime. See Com. v. Deitrick, 221 Pa. 7 , 70 A. 275 .”
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.