Commonwealth v. Musto’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kravitz (1960), 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor (1984)
114 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Holt v. United States · Commonwealth v. DiStasio · Ingles v. People · People v. Krauser · State v. Genna
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defendant should not be required to answer a charge in different form, and unrelated to, the one for which he was arrested and held to bail.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * But the prohibition of compelling a man in a criminal court to be witness against himself is a prohibition of the use of physical or moral compulsion to extort communications from him, not an exclusion of his body as evidence when it may be material. The objection in principle would forbid a jury to look at a prisoner and compare his features with a photograph in proof. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berg
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.