Commonwealth v. Power’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pike (1998), Commonwealth v. Woodward (1998)
52 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Griffin v. Wisconsin · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of the New York State Crime Victims Board
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the language which is challenged conveys sufficiently definitive warning as to the proscribed conduct ... it is constitutionally adequate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it is a rare sentence, whether or not jail is a part of it, that does not in fact involve ... rehabilitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“may include, but shall not be limited * to, participation by [the defendant] in rehabilitative programs.”
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.