Commonwealth v. McGuinness’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Holmes v. Spencer (2012), Commonwealth v. Azar (2005)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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. Delgado · McGuinness v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Amirault
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge may not interfere with the executive function of the parole board by using postconviction evidence in an order to revise and revoke”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“premised on a major misunderstanding by the sentencing judge as to the legal bounds of his authority,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An illegal sentence is one that is not permitted by law for the offense committed.”
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.