Commonwealth v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Borodine (1976), Commonwealth v. Campbell (1979)
2 district · 37 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 Barker v. Wingo · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Michigan v. Tucker · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Whether a criminal act occurred within the territorial boundaries of the Commonwealth, and thus whether the Commonwealth has jurisdiction over the individual charged with that act, is a question of fact to be settled by proof.' ... As such, it is an issue entrusted to the deliberative process of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the defendant were truly concerned that the passage of time would undermine his ability to defend himself, common sense dictates that he would have pressed for a speedy trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failure to assert the right will make it difficult for a defendant to prove that he was denied a speedy trial.”
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.