Commonwealth v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 321 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 360 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill (1985), Ponte v. Real (1985)
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 321 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Commonwealth v. Upton
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.