Commonwealth v. Plunkett’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), State v. Kalaola (2010)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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 Griffin v. United States · 4 Cal. 4th 1116 - People v. Guiton · Commonwealth v. Tucker · State v. Grissom · Field v. Brown
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established in this Commonwealth that a verdict cannot stand unless it appears that the jury reached their verdict on a theory for which there was factual support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jurors understandably might believe that there must be some evidence to support that theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kalaola
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.