Commonwealth v. Hebert’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Connor (1984), Commonwealth v. Berry (1995)
42 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 Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · Horning v. District of Columbia · United States v. Dougherty · United States v. Spock · Commonwealth v. Rodriquez
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he authority to accept partial verdicts, however, does not encompass the power to accept a tentative or conditional verdict on any criminal charge. A jury verdict in a criminal case must be unanimous, and “[a] judge has no authority to direct a verdict when there are issues of fact to be resolved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“our law does not permit inquiry into 'the subjective mental processes of jurors, such as the reasons for their decisions'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t remains within the power of a juror to vote his or her conscience”
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.