Commonwealth v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Day (1983), Commonwealth v. Marrone (1982)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3148 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on Stack v. Boyle · Answer of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Hulett v. Brinson · Fine v. Commonwealth · United States v. Motlow
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.
“an appeal which presents an issue which is worthy of presentation to an appellate court, one which offers some reasonable possibility of a successful decision in the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blue v. Medeiros“has the power to consider the matter anew, taking into account facts newly presented, and to exercise his own judgment and discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable likelihood of success on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Adoption Gemma
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.