Commonwealth v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Pope v. Nebraska · Martin Theatres of Texas, Inc. v. Bullock · Commonwealth v. McHoul · Commonwealth v. Walker
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]n the absence of special circumstances, the judge should not refer to the appellate process.”
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.