Commonwealth v. Collett’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc. v. Blake (1994), State v. Nunn (1989)
4 district · 34 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. Nixon · 2 Cal. 3d 415 - In Re Lifschutz · Collum v. Louisiana · Hanlon v. Rollins · Commonwealth v. Stokes
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he general and familiar rule ... that a statute must be interpreted according to the intent of the Legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the main object to be accomplished, to the end that the purpose of its framers may be effectuated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should not be present during this determination because there is a strong likelihood that some of the disclosed information will not come within an exception and will remain privileged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weisbeck v. Hess“The judge should phrase his questions to the social worker so as to limit the social worker's disclosures to information likely to fall within the exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weisbeck v. Hess
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.