Commonwealth v. Bernier’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Saferian (1974), Commonwealth v. Adams (1978)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 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 Anders v. California · Glasser v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Douglas v. Alabama · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts that are 'neither agreed upon nor apparent on the face of the record'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The credibility of the affiant and the witnesses [is] a preliminary matter for decision by the trial judge and his decision thereon is final”
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.