Commonwealth v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2022
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 Victor v. Nebraska · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · Commonwealth v. Sires · Commonwealth v. Rosa
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent some evidence that the defendant's knowledge was impaired, intentionally discharging a firearm in the direction of another person creates a plain and strong likelihood of death”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Pina
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.