Mann v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (1972), Justices of Boston Municipal Court v. Lydon (1984)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Douglas v. People of State of California · United States v. Jackson
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wipes out the lower court action entirely. In the case of a finding of guilt and sentence, it wipes out both and in a case of plea and sentence it wipes out the sentence. After an appeal the finding or sentence of the District Court has no force and effect for any purpose on a judge of the Superior Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Almeida v. Lucey
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.