Commonwealth v. Gorham’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Attorney General v. Pelletier (1922), People v. . Fabian (1908)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Bonner
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term “conviction” in its most common use “signifies the finding of the jury that the prisoner is guilty, but it is very frequently used as implying a judgment and sentence of the Court upon a verdict or confession of guilt.’'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Exum
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.