Commonwealth v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1933
10 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 manifest that the statute was intended to embrace a class of offenses not amounting to perjury at common law; cases of false oaths not made in the administration of or course of justice; but we fail to see why, when the commonwealth has a case which, according to the statements of the indictment, authorized it to proceed either for perjury or for the statutory offense, it may not do so. Clearly it has its election.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon the averments of the indictment, the accused should have been charged with perjury instead of giving false evidence.””
1 later decision 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.