Commonwealth v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Doucette (1984), Commonwealth v. Waite (1996)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Commonwealth v. Latimore
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that some of the instructions were correct is not determinative in this case, since we cannot know whether the jury were guided by the correct or the incorrect portion of the instructions”
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.