Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably West v. State (1988), 575 So. 2d 16 - MacKbee v. State (1990)
4 federal appellate · 36 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. Mastrangelo · Commonwealth v. Carbonetto · Commonwealth v. Hamm · Commonwealth v. Green · Commonwealth v. Darcy
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his conduct substantially differs from the case of the thief who merely takes the property of another with intent permanently to deprive him thereof, using no force or threat of force on the victim--like the pick-pocket (Chapter 39 of the Crimes Code).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The degree of actual force is immaterial, so long as it is sufficient to separate the victim from his property[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“property from the person of another by force however slight.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.