Commonwealth v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Commonwealth v. Gravely (1979), Commonwealth v. Waters (1978)
2 federal appellate · 60 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 Barker v. Wingo · Ashe v. Swenson · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Smith v. Hooey · Strunk v. United States
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No portions of the charge nor omissions therefrom may be assigned as error, unless specific objections are made thereto before the jury retires to deliberate. All such objections shall be made beyond the hearing of the jury.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A conspiracy to commit murder would necessarily indicate that the killing was `willful, deliberate, and premeditated.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bronshtein v. Horn
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.