Commonwealth v. Leno’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Scarpa v. Dubois (1994), Kobrin v. Gastfriend (2005)
3 federal appellate · 25 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. Ferreira · Commonwealth v. Hood · Commonwealth v. Fernette · 120 Wash. 2d 140 - Spokane County Health District v. Brockett · State v. Dorsey
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the prevention of possible future harm does not excuse a current systematic violation of the law in anticipation of the eventual over-all benefit to the public. [Id. 616 N.E.2d at 456 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCague“We do not accept the premise that jurors have the right to nullify the law on which they are instructed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scarpa v. Dubois“clear and imminent, rather than debatable or speculative”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thayer
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.