Commonwealth v. Fleenor’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2018
10 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 Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Barry v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Spaulding · Commonwealth v. Conefrey · Commonwealth v. Dias
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to meet its burden, the Commonwealth does not have to demonstrate that the defendant assented, on the record, to the various continuances of the trial dates. Rather, ... it is the obligation of defense counsel to object to delay (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To overcome the motion to dismiss, the Commonwealth had the burden of justifying a delay ... beyond the one year period allowed by the rule.”
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.