Commonwealth v. Almeida’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Redline (1958), Commonwealth v. Bolish (1955)
13 federal appellate · 118 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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. Moyer · Commonwealth v. Kelly · Commonwealth v. Moore · Commonwealth v. Thompson · 3 Smith & H. 68 - Letner v. State
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury . . . would . . . have to find. . . that the fatal shot was fired by one of the felons, or if not fired by one of them, that the conduct of the defendant or his accomplices set in motion a chain of events among whose reasonably foreseeable consequences was a killing such as actually occurred.”
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.