Commonwealth v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bianco (1983), Commonwealth v. Sherry (1982)
1 district · 66 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Dunn v. United States · Roberts v. Russell
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . should consider whether to introduce statements of individual defendants in joint trials or rather to refrain from doing so or to consent to severance of the trials. Any other course involves serious risk that the trials will have been futile.” Commonwealth v. Scott, 355 Mass. 471 , 245 N.E.2d 415, 419, 420 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State · McCook v. State“However, the rule is well established in criminal cases that mere inconsistency in verdicts, one of which is an acquittal, will not render the verdict of guilty erroneous even though such inconsistency may have indicated the possibility of compromise on the part of the jury.”
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.