Commonwealth v. Le Grand’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Samuel Jones (1946), Commonwealth v. Moyer (1947)
3 federal appellate · 30 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. Garramone · Commonwealth v. Kelly · Zeigler's Petition · Fisher v. Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Passenger Railway Co. · Hutts v. Martin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Burglary is one of the most detestable crimes known to the law. Blackstone characterizes common law burglary as “a very heinous offence” carrying “terror ... with it; ... it is a forcible invasion of the right of habitation; ... an invasion which in a state of nature would be sure to be punished with death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chipps
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.