Commonwealth v. Keane’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Multistate Legal Studies, Inc. v. Ladd, Register of Copyrights · Commonwealth v. Rodriquez · Brooks v. Winter · Commonwealth v. Valliere · Commonwealth v. Ferreira
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever has been twice convicted of crime and sentenced and committed to prison in this or another state . . . shall, upon conviction of a felony, be considered an habitual criminal and be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for the maximum term provided by law as a penalty for the felony for which he is then to be sentenced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Concurrent prison sentences, imposed for separate and distinct offenses, together with a third conviction of a felony, support a finding of habitual offender status under the statute,”
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.