Commonwealth v. Conefrey’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Ceballos (2003), Commonwealth v. Grandison (2001)
2 district · 69 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sullivan v. Louisiana · United States v. Cruikshank · Johnson v. Louisiana · Apodaca v. Oregon
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some jurors may have convicted the defendant on the basis of one alleged incident, while others may have convicted him based upon any of the [others]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed an intentional, unprivileged, and indecent touching of the victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A] specific unanimity instruction indicates to the jury that they must be unanimous as to which specific act constitutes the offense charged,”
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.