Commonwealth v. Mandile’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Colon-Cruz (1990), Commonwealth v. Nardone (1989)
2 district · 53 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. Latimore · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · Commonwealth v. Casale
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant (1) participated in stealing guns to aid in the commission of some future offense; (2) was present during the commission of the murder; (3) knew the passenger was armed, (4) was the driver of a getaway car; and (5) attempted to conceal the crime through both the disposal of the murder weapon and inconsistent statements to the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shown that [the defendant] intentionally assisted [the shooter] in the commission of the crime and that he did this, sharing with [the shooter] the mental state required for that crime”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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
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.