Commonwealth v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2018
3 federal appellate · 15 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. Dascalakis · State v. Longmore · Goodman v. State · 32 Ill. 2d 591 - The People v. Sims · Googe v. Publix Super Market, 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prisoner who escapes or attempts to escape from any penal institution or from land appurtenant thereto, or from the custody of any officer thereof or while being conveyed to or from any such institution, or fails to return from temporary release granted under the provisions of section ninety A of chapter one hundred twenty-seven, may be pursued and recaptured and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one half years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giordano v. Fair“* * * [I]t is our view that, in interpreting escape statutes, there is justification for adopting a construction which permits the punishment of all escaping prisoners. * * * It would seem illogical to construe a legislative intent that although the prisoner was to get credit in the execution of his sentence for the term spent in [a] hospital, however, if he escaped from the hospital he was not considered to be in custody for the purpose of being punished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knox“In order to effectuate the over-all purpose of deterring and punishing all escaping prisoners, it is reasonable to conclude that the legislature intended Minn.St. 609.485 to apply to conduct such as defendant's. (b) Applicability of Parole Exception. Given application of the statute in fact to the conduct of defendant, does he nonetheless fall within the exception of subd. 3 of the statute? It is conceded that defendant was on”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knox
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.