Commonwealth v. Santo’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), Commonwealth v. Tavares (1982)
6 district · 78 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 Michigan v. Mosley · Bates v. State Bar · United States v. Testan · Commonwealth v. Mahnke · Commonwealth v. Campbell
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judge is not required to instruct on a hypothesis that is not supported by the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Commonwealth v. Pina
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.