Mendonza v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bruno (2000), Commonwealth v. Whelton (1998)
2 district · 45 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Mathews v. Eldridge · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · North Carolina v. Alford
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a person is held under arrest for an offense listed in subsection (1) and upon a motion by the [C]ommonwealth, the judge shall hold a hearing to determine whether conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of any other person or the community."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finn v. Commonwealth“by clear and convincing evidence that no conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of any other person or the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. G.F.“both cases are moot since both [defendants] have admitted guilt and are no longer subject to [G. L. c. 276,] § 58A”
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.