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Commonwealth v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

1888

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
11
states following
November 1987
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Commonwealth v. Farrell (1948), People v. Hines (1940)

5 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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. Weight

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.