Commonwealth v. Friend’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2018
15 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 Serfass v. United States · Commonwealth v. Mahoney · Corey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Clemmons · Burhoe v. Byrne
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order or decision dismissing an indictment in the Superior Court must first be entered in the Appeals Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ruiz“allow[s] a motion for appropriate relief under the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ruiz“allow[s] a motion to dismiss an indictment or complaint,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ruiz
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.