Leaster v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Dickerson v. Attorney General (1986), Lacy v. Gardino (1986)
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 33 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 United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. · Commonwealth v. McLaughlin · Commonwealth v. Lacy · Commonwealth v. Leaster · Commonwealth v. Dunigan
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.
“If any motion is filed in the superior court after rescript, no appeal shall lie from the decision of that court upon such motion unless the appeal is allowed by a single justice of the supreme judicial court on the ground that it presents a new and substantial question which ought to be determined by the full court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickerson v. Walsh“exclusive vehicle for postconviction relief”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sena v. Kenneway
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.