Commonwealth v. Null’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is well-settled that following remand, the trial court below must comply strictly with this Court's mandate and has no power to modify, alter, amend, set aside, or in any measure disturb or depart from this Court's decision as to any matter decided on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. McCauley

2. “[S]entence in a court case shall ordinarily be imposed within 90 days of conviction ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Neysmith