Cardwell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
June 2014
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. DiFrancesco · Ex parte Lange · Bozza v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he distinction [between judicial error and clerical error] turns on whether the error was the deliberate result of judicial reasoning and determination, regardless of whether it was made by the clerk, by counsel, or by the judge. A clerical error involves an error or mistake made by a clerk or other judicial or ministerial officer in writing or keeping records.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a legitimate expectation in the finality of his sentence.”
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.