Commonwealth v. DeVincent’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Goodreau (2004), Commonwealth v. Murphy (2004)
2 district · 47 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. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Adams · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Curtis · Commonwealth v. Licata
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'substantial issue' that would require an evidentiary hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“entitled to use his knowledge and evaluation of the evidence at trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“defer to the sound discretion of the trial judge on whether [the defendant's] motion for a new trial requires an evidentiary hearing or whether it can be decided on the basis of the facts alleged in the affidavits,”
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.