Commonwealth v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011 · most notably Staples v. United States (1994), Commonwealth v. Mixer (1910)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant is charged with an offense under the first clause of section 1, c. 253, St. 1806, by which it is made punishable to kill a calf less than four weeks old for the purpose of sale. It was not necessary to allege in the indictment that he knew the calf to be less than four weeks old. Under this clause, as under the laws against the sale of intoxicating liquor or adulterated milk, and many police, health, and revenue regulations, the defendant is bound to know the facts and obey the law at his peril. Such is the general rule where acts which aro not mala in se are made mala prohibita from motives of public policy, and not because of their moral turpitude or the criminal intent with which they are committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eagle v. Nowlin
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.