Commonwealth v. Simonds’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1949
1 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, the operator or owner of the machine, by receiving five per cent certain, without regard to the issue of the race, is not guilty of gaming or betting, in a technical sense, because he hazards nothing; but the ticket buyers are engaged in unlawful betting, whereby they either win the money of other ticket buyers or lose their own, and the machine is used by the ticket buyers in betting, and the operator or owner of the machine sets it up, exhibits, and uses it for the ticket buyers, and to aid them in unlawful betting, whereby they win money or lose money, and we are therefore of the opinion that the evidence shows in this case that the accused set up, exhibited, and used the machine known as ‘French pool’; that it is a contrivance used in betting, by which betting money or other thing is or may be won or lost, and it is within the description of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCall v. State
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.