Commonwealth v. Corey’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2015
17 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 Dennis v. United States · Smith v. People of the State of California · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Mishkin v. State of New York · State v. Sul
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]bsent the scienter requirement, booksellers, unable to familiarize themselves with all the material on their shelves, would tend to restrict sales ... to the relatively few books of which they had some knowledge of the contents or character. The result would be an impediment to the sale ... not only of unprotected matter but also of that which is constitutionally protected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“existence of a mens rea is the rule of, rather than the exception to, the principles of Anglo-American criminal jurisprudence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alfonsi
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.