Commonwealth v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2015
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Lolos v. Berlin · Department of Youth Services v. a Juvenile · Andrews · Commonwealth v. Watson · Furtado v. Furtado
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.
“it does not follow that the [government] failed to meet its burden of persuasion simply because the defendant rebutted the presumption... which flowed from the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re DRJ“a significant danger to the public and . . . not amenable to rehabilitation within the juvenile justice system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Brien v. Marshall“not amenable to rehabilitation within the juvenile justice system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Brien v. Marshall
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.