Commonwealth v. Giang’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Colon-Cruz (1990), Commonwealth v. Catalina (1990)
4 district · 35 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. Casale · Wellesley College v. Attorney General · Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance v. Abernathy
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an inference is warranted or is impermissibly remote must be determined, not by hard and fast rules of law, but by experience and common sense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“need only be reasonable and possible and need not be necessary or inescapable.”
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.