Commonwealth v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1988 · most notably Commonwealth v. Simon (1968), Commonwealth v. Bonomo (1959)
55 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. Simmons · Commonwealth v. New · Commonwealth v. Almeida · Commonwealth v. Donough · Commonwealth v. McGrew
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the measure of proof required for the defense of alibi is merely a preponderance of the evidence, or, as it is sometimes stated, proof `to the satisfaction of the jury.'”
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.