Commonwealth v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Canavan's Case (2000), Commonwealth v. Santiago (1997)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 52 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Hoffa v. United States · Frye v. United States · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Commonwealth v. Latimore
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section any person who — willfully commits an interception, attempts to commit an interception, or procures any other person to commit an interception or to attempt to commit an interception of any wire or oral communication shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the state prison for not more than five years, or imprisoned in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one half years, or both so fined and given one such imprisonment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hyde““The agreement does not say that the Commonwealth’s performance is contingent on [the witness’s] testimony conforming to the Commonwealth’s version of the events. Rather, the Commonwealth’s commitment is conditioned on [the witness’s] noninvolvement in the two killings and his ‘truthful cooperation’ with the Commonwealth.” 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This promise is expressly conditioned on your representation that you did not participate in either stabbing mentioned above and on your complete and truthful cooperation with the Commonwealth.””
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.