Commonwealth v. Scoleri’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Commonwealth. v. Hoss (1971), Commonwealth v. Dickerson (1962)
5 federal appellate · 74 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co · Thompson v. State of Utah · Gibson v. State of Mississippi
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a section or part of a law is amended, the amendment shall be construed as merging into the original law, become a part thereof, and replace the part amended and the remainder of the original law and the amendment shall be read together and viewed as one law passed at one time; but the portions of the law which were not altered by the amendment shall be construed as effective from the time of their original enactment, and the new provisions shall be construed as effective only from the date when the amendment became effective.’’'' Id. (emphasis in original)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o law shall be construed to be retroactive unless clearly and manifestly so intended by the legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““I have been advised before we brought him in that he was able to consult. I have been advised by the doctors. A doctor is here in attendance, and he has stated that since that time he is better able than he was five hours ago, which antedated the time we started this session by two hours, and you notice this, he has asked for water, and he has asked for a blanket, and inasmuch as some of the testimony has been taken within his presence and within his hearing, I do not propose to have this case interrupted any longer. “Your objection is overruled.””
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.