Corey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Borman v. Borman (1979), Commonwealth v. St. Pierre (1979)
1 district · 43 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 Myers v. Commonwealth · Gilday v. Commonwealth · Barber v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Rice · Commonwealth v. Sullivan
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[District courts] shall commit or bind over for trial in the superior court persons brought before them who appear to be guilty of crimes not within their final jurisdiction, and may so commit or bind over persons brought before them who appear to be guilty of crimes within their final jurisdiction. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only in the most exceptional circumstances.”
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.