Commonwealth v. Geary’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2007
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Andrews · Commonwealth v. Ford · 28 Mass. App. Ct. 979 - Commonwealth v. Moore
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prisoner in any ... correctional institution of the commonwealth”
2 later decisions 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.