Commonwealth v. Longo’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Williams (1996)
6 district · 107 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 Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company · Commonwealth v. Casale · Commonwealth v. Fancy
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need only be reasonable and possible and need not be necessary or inescapable.”
2 later decisions 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.