Commonwealth v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez (2007), Commonwealth v. Soares (1979)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 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. Chalifoux · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Kiernan · Commonwealth v. Slaney
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intentionally assist[] the principal in the commission of the crime . . . , sharing with the principal the mental state required for that crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Soto Vittini v. Barr
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.