Commonwealth v. Favulli’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company (1971), State v. Gretzler (1980)
42 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 Pinkerton v. United States · Cardillo v. United States · Costello v. United States · Fay v. People of State of New York Bove · Kilbourn v. Thompson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A tendency to prejudice may be presumed when, in presenting cases to the grand jury, the trial court finds that the prosecutor or his deputies have engaged in words or conduct that will invade the prov- inee of the grand jury or tend to induce action other than that which the jurors in their uninfluenced judgment deem warranted on the evidence fairly presented before them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Joao · State v. Paulsen
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.