Commonwealth v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cook (1994), Commonwealth v. Denehy (2014)
61 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 Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · Ohio v. Johnson · Wrenn v. McFadden · Trudo v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he decision to nol pros a criminal case is within the discretion of the executive branch of government, free from judicial intervention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“effectively usurped the decision-making authority constitutionally allocated to the executive branch.”
2 later decisions 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.