Commonwealth v. Swallow’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1986
1 federal appellate · 3 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. Green · People of the State of N.Y. v. . Davis · Briggs v. Garrett · Van Vechten v. Hopkins · Collins v. Dispatch Publishing Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Among the rights declared by the constitutions of 1790, 1838, and 1873 to be 'inherent and indefensible' is that of protecting reputation”
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.