Commonwealth v. Vickey’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Sullivan v. Town of Brookline (2001), Commonwealth v. Galvin (1983)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 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 Padilla-Martinez v. United States · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Brady v. United States · Gurleski v. United States · Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the statute appears not to provide for an eventuality, there is no justification for judicial legislation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he distinction between expungement of a record and sealing of a record is important.... The latter term refers to those steps taken to segregate certain records from the generality of records and to ensure their confidentiality to the extent specified in the controlling statute.”). As we stated in Fosher, an intent to benefit an offender”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The [Criminal History Systems Board] shall promulgate regulations . . . assuring the prompt and complete purging of criminal record information insofar as such purging is required ... by the order of any court of competent jurisdiction.””
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.