Commonwealth v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably MacCormack v. Boston Edison Co. (1996), Commonwealth v. Drumgold (1996)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 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 Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · Farrell v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Kozec
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From all the Commonwealth’s evidence, the jury reasonably could have inferred that [Stewart] and Good had been driving up and down Cambridge Street looking for Perry so Good could shoot him; ... and that [Stewart] deliberately parked on a side street near Cambridge Street, and around the comer from where Perry was soon to pass, in order to facilitate a speedy escape after the murder. [and] that [Stewart’s] intent to assist was further shown by evidence that Good ran directly to [Stewart’s] automobile after the shooting, that without any hesitation or conversation, [Stewart] immediately pulled away and sped up the street at a high rate of speed; and that [Stewart] subsequently covered Good’s escape by lying to the police.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the murder occurred quickly after Good spotted Perry, and there was evidence that Good ran to the defendant’s automobile which had been parked nearby immediately after the murder. Moreover, there was evidence that the defendant instantly moved the automobile out of its parking space and accelerated rapidly without first conversing with Good.”
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.