Commonwealth v. Chatman’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Kent v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f an acquittee is mentally ill and in need of inpatient hospitalization, the court must commit the acquittee”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to put in issue his sanity at the time of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Disposition of Persons Acquitted by Reason of Insanity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.