Commonwealth v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Denehy (2014), Commonwealth v. Harbin (2002)
41 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 Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Beckett · Barry v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Farris · Commonwealth v. Conefrey
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acquiesced in, was responsible for, or benefited from the delay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a criminal defendant who is not brought to trial within one year of the date of arraignment is presumptively entitled to dismissal of the charges unless the Commonwealth justifies the delay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“within twelve months after the return day in the court in which the case is awaiting trial.”
2 later decisions 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.