Commonwealth v. Salone’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2022
10 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. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. a Juvenile · Commonwealth v. Snow
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decisive issue . . . was the credibility of the complainant and the defendant who testified to conflicting versions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The language in the indictment specifying the particular weapon used is superfluous”
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.