Commonwealth v. Acen’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2018
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968) · 48 U.S.C. § 867
Relies on Rochin v. People of California · Taylor v. Louisiana · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Duren v. Missouri · Graham v. Richardson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o court has ever held that 'non-English speaking persons' form a distinct or protected class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“those who are unable to read English are not a suspect class under the equal protection clause”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.