Commonwealth v. Ferrara’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2023
18 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 Commonwealth v. Clair · In Re Martorano · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Strickler · Commonwealth v. Washington
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power of, the several courts of this Commonwealth to issue attachments and to inflict summary punishments for contempts of court shall be restricted to the following cases: Hi He * * sf: Hs”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is no less contemptuous than the conduct of awitness who appears but refuses to testify and is deserving of no lesser punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“` open court' as one ` which has been formally convened and declared open for transactions of its proper judicial business.”
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.