Commonwealth v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012
6 federal appellate · 6 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 Hamilton v. United States · Kimbrough v. Commonwealth · Long v. Commonwealth · United Mine Workers of America, Dist. No. 23 v. Morris · Rudolph v. Commonwealth
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. in order for the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence to be preserved for appellate review, the party wishing to use the insufficiency as a basis for his appeal must have moved for a directed verdict at the close of all the evidence, not just at the close of the Commonwealth’s case in chief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an appellate hearing is conditioned upon compliance with essential rules, without which this court could not effectively conduct its business. It is our duty to enforce those rules as a part of the judicial process ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carpenter v. Leibson“Judicial consistency must be observed in order to maintain a responsible and efficient court system.”
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.