Commonwealth v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Yesilciman (1990), Commonwealth v. Colon-Cruz (1990)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Bruton v. United States · Anthony v. United States · Taylor v. Alabama · Cruz v. New York · Commonwealth v. Tavares
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To sustain a conviction based on a joint venture, the Commonwealth need only show that each defendant shared the mental state required for the crime of which he was convicted, and that he satisfied the other elements of the test for joint venture.”
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.