Commonwealth v. LeFave’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Worcester Insurance v. Fells Acres Day School, Inc. (1990), Commonwealth v. Grandison (2001)
37 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 Bates v. State Bar · Johnson v. United States · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Simon v. Solomon
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is seldom that the discretion of the trial judge can be revised; its exercise must have been clearly erroneous to justify such action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“may justify a particular rebuttal from the prosecutor”
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.