Commesso v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2019
22 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 Stack v. Boyle · Schilb v. Kuebel · In the Matter of Troy · Commonwealth v. Baker · Stranad 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the single justice has the power to consider the matter anew, taking into account facts newly presented, and to exercise his own judgment and discretion without remanding the matter for reconsideration by the Superior Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“requires the Superior Court judge to consider the matter anew and to exercise his [or her] own judgment and discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finn v. Commonwealth“Trial should not ordinarily be delayed pending bail review even though a conviction will make the bail issue moot”
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.