Commonwealth v. Beals’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2020
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738A · 28 U.S.C. § 534 (National Law) · 42 U.S.C. § 663 (§ 463 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Comey v. Hill · Felton v. Felton · Negron v. Gordon · Commonwealth v. Graham · Commonwealth v. Brasher
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, being a relative of a child less than eighteen years old, without lawful authority, holds or intends to hold such a child permanently or for a protracted period, or takes or entices a child from his lawful custodian ... shall be punished by imprisonment....”
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.