Commonwealth v. Doherty’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Picard v. Connor (1971), Commonwealth v. Borodine (1976)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 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 · Commonwealth v. Balliro · United States v. Youngblood · Commonwealth v. Woodward · Commonwealth v. Gedzium
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“John Doe, the true name and a more particular description of the said John Doe being to the said jurors unknown,”
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.