Commonwealth v. Libonati’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kloiber (1954), Commonwealth v. Sullivan (1977)
170 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. Giacobbe · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Winter · Commonwealth v. Weber · Com. v. Benz., Com. v. Routley
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not be absolutely incompatible with [the] defendant's innocence, but the question of any doubt is for the jury unless the evidence `be so weak and inconclusive that as a matter of law no probability of fact can be drawn from the combined circumstances.'”
6 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.