Commonwealth v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kichline (1976), Commonwealth v. Sullivan (1977)
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Commonwealth v. Libonati · Commonwealth v. Doris · Commonwealth v. Bausewine · Commonwealth v. Kelly · 142 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Marino
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is required is that, the evidence being circumstantial, the circumstances proved should be such as reasonably and naturally to justify an inference of the guilt of the accused, and of such volume and quality as to overcome the presumption of innocence and satisfy the jury of the accused's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The reasonable inference of guilt must be based on facts and conditions proved; it cannot rest solely on suspicion or surmise.”
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.