Commonwealth v. Devlin’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Burke (1983), Commonwealth v. Donovan (1985)
2 district · 34 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 Government of the Virgin Islands v. Aquino · Commonwealth v. Croft · Commonwealth v. Eagan · Commonwealth v. Hughes · Commonwealth v. Shea
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the substantial facts of the [underlying] felonious crime,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no suggestion here that the knowledge of the accessory must be such that he is able to put a name or label on the felony — only that he is aware of the substantial facts which make up the elements of the felony. [366 Mass, at 136 n. 4, 314 N. E. 2d at 899 n. 4]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Lynch“furnishing [the principal] with a horse to escape his pursuers, money or victuals to support him, a house or other shelter to conceal him, or open force and violence to rescue or protect him.”
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.