Commonwealth v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
January 1989
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Sagansky v. United States · Commonwealth v. Collins · 296 F. Supp. 972 - United States v. Kros
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . whether the criminal design was created by the officer or whether the officer merely afforded an opportunity for the commission of a crime by the person already disposed to commit the crime . . .”
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.