Commonwealth v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Silanskas (2001)
4 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bianco · Commonwealth v. Morrow · Commonwealth v. Williams
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“aids in the commission of a felony, or is an accessory thereto before the fact by counselling, hiring or otherwise procuring such felony to be committed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webster v. Gray“the defendant's presence at the scene of a crime in a prosecution proceeding on a joint participation theory”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webster v. Gray“only to the extent that the factor has legal significance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webster v. Gray
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.