Commonwealth v. Nawn’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Waite (1996), Commonwealth v. Ruffen (1987)
48 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · Boddie v. Connecticut · Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution v. Hill · United States v. Satterfield
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider whether the defendant is financially able to pay the amount ordered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the Commonwealth bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence the amount of the victim's losses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the record reveals an arbitrary method of determining the amount of restitution, the order cannot stand.”
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.