Commonwealth v. Bubna’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Chmiel (1994), Commonwealth v. Baker (1986)
33 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 Commonwealth v. Elliott · Cox v. Commonwealth · Carroll v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Meleskie · Kilrow v. Commonwealth
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is also equally well known that partners in crime sometimes do tell the truth as to the commission of the crime.”
2 later decisions 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.