Commonwealth v. Geagan’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company (1971), Commonwealth v. Walker (1976)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 91 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 Cassell v. Texas · United States v. Murdock · Commonwealth v. Domanski · Delaney v. United States · Commonwealth v. Trefethen
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there was publicity created by enforcement officials, this was indefensible. It does not follow, however, that the inevitable result is that the defendants must be released, because they can never constitutionally be tried ... , or that these particular indictments should be quashed.” Id. page 501. See also United States v. Medlin (6th Cir. 1965), 353 Fed. (2d) 789.”
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.