Commonwealth v. Souza’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Mele v. Fitchburg District Court (1988), Commonwealth v. Mills (2002)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · North Carolina v. Alford · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Goodwin
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.