Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably People v. Darlington (2005), United States v. De Jesus Ventura (2009)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Gregg v. Commonwealth · Roach v. Commonwealth
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person deferred from judgment following a determination that the evidence is sufficient to support a conviction is not `innocent' of the offense regardless of the plea originally entered.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a confession of guilt and has no effect beyond permitting the court to impose sentence in a particular case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“precluded from maintaining her innocence in the expungement proceeding because, as in Gregg , the record that would be expunged affirmatively establishes her guilt of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniel v. Com. · Brown v. Com.
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.