Commonwealth v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1991
9 state decisions
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. Little · Commonwealth v. Phillips · Commonwealth v. Allen · Commonwealth v. Tolbert
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Not only is a grand jury indictment a protection for the individual charged, it is also an embodiment of the charge upon which a trial court may ground its deliberation. The indictment thus becomes a foundation for the court's subject-matter jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] bill of indictment or an indictment is a necessary concommitant to subject-matter jurisdiction before a sentence may be imposed for offenses in court cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the acceptance of guilty plea and sentencing were a nullity, the court lacking jurisdiction.”
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.