Commonwealth v. Kiernan’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Freeman (1967), Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company (1971)
3 federal appellate · 88 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 Fahy v. Connecticut · Krulewitch v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States · Commonwealth v. Welansky · United States v. Stromberg
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not require that the false statement should be made to any particular person or that it should be with the intention of committing a fraud upon the person to whom the statement was made. The offense is committed when the false statement is made, with the intention to commit a fraud, and money or property is thereby obtained. The purpose of the statute is to punish the perpetrators of fraud committed through any false pretense. The gist of the offense is the successful misrepresentation, regardless of the person to whom it is made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be inferred from several circumstances, weighed collectively,”
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.