Commonwealth v. Pomerleau’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Ferreira · Commonwealth v. Garcia · United States v. Pinkney · Commonwealth v. Hughes
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.
“attempted to convert [an] example [explaining circumstantial evidence and inferences] to one illustrating how doubt might be formed in the minds of the jurors,”
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.