Commonwealth v. Semedo’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wilson (1998), Commonwealth v. James (1997)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 38 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 Romano v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Massa v. United States · Commonwealth v. Soares
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the defendant’s indifference to or pleasure in the victim’s suffering, the victim’s consciousness and degree of suffering, the extent of injuries inflicted, the number of blows, the manner and force by which the blows were delivered, the weapon used by the defendant, and the disproportion between the means necessary to cause death and the means employed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the defendant shared with the principal the mental state required for the crime”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowledge that another intended to commit a crime,”
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.