Commonwealth v. Bumpus’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (1979), Commonwealth v. Haas (1977)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 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 Ham v. South Carolina · Ross v. Massachusetts · Hartel v. Long Island Railroad Company · Commonwealth v. Rodriquez · Denham v. National Labor Relations Board
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“well known locally for his work in such civil rights activities as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Bi-Racial Committee of the City of Florence. * * * His basic defense at the trial was that law enforcement officers were out to get him because of his civil rights activities, and that he had been framed on the drug charge.”
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.