Commonwealth v. Keizer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 162 Ill. 2d 314 - People v. Cruz (1994), State v. Gold (1980)
86 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Joseph Skilken & Co. v. City of Toledo · United States v. Mitchell · People v. Haston · United States v. Barrett
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.
““Here, there are substantial connecting links between the offense charged and the subsequent crime. Both offenses involved a crime of the same type, committed by similar methods in the same vicinity of Boston, by three males of similar description. In addition, similar weapons were used, not just in the generic sense, but in terms of specific characteristics: what appeared to be a square-barreled pistol and a sawed off shotgun concealed by a paper bag. We recognize that some of the similarities recited may be common to many robberies committed in Boston, and that there is some discrepancy in the reported physical description of the suspects involved in the two offenses. However, the alleged participation of Linnell Young (for whom a warrant had issued for participation in the same crime for which the defendant stood indicted) in both robberies is distinctive, and when coupled with the other common factors forms a possible link between the two robberies.” 377 Mass. 264, 267-68 , 385 N.E.2d 1001, 1004 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not just in the generic sense, but in terms of specific characteristics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moeller
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.