Latimore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2015
3 federal appellate · 7 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. Latimore · Bournewood Hospital, Inc. v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination · Dickerson v. Attorney General · Commonwealth v. Cook · Fuss v. Fuss (No. 1)
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a defendant in a capital case seeks to appeal from a Superior Court ruling on a rule 30 motion filed after a rescript from [the SJC], the appellate procedure set forth in G.L. c. 278, § 33E, rather than the procedure set forth in rule 30, governs the appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. Matesanz
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.