Commonwealth v. Lent’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2018
8 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 Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · State v. Ross · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · State v. Grissom · Commonwealth v. Pierce
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a mortal wound is given, or if other violence or injury is inflicted ... in any county of the commonwealth, by means whereof death ensues without the commonwealth, the homicide may be prosecuted and punished in the county where the act was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is lower than that for submitting a criminal case to a jury (facts warranting a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the death [was] one that would not have occurred but for the violence or injury that was inflicted in Massachusetts.”
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.