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← 45 Mass. 111 - Commonwealth v. Hunt

Commonwealth v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis

1842

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
6
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2016

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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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 3 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 293 - Commonwealth v. Judd · Lambert v. People · Commonwealth v. Warren · Sullivan v. Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance · Commonwealth v. Ward

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.

  1. “From this view of the law respecting conspiracy we think it an offense which especially demands the application of that wise and humane rule of the common law that an indictment shall state with as much certainty as the nature of the case will admit the facts which constitute the crime intended to be charged. This is required enable the defendant to meet the charge and prepare for his defense, and, in case of an acquittal or conviction, to show by the record the identity of the charge, so that he may not be indicted a second time for the same offense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Van Pelt
  2. “If it is to be carried into effect by fair or honorable or lawful means, it is, to say the least, innocent. If by falsehood or force, it may be stamped with the character of a criminal conspiracy.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Van Pelt

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.