Commonwealth v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tevlin (2001), Commonwealth v. Mattei (2010)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 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 Nebraska v. Wyoming · Kelly v. United States · United States v. Murphy · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. Farrell
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is no need to prove an anticipatory compact between the parties to establish joint venture ... if, at the climactic moment the parties consciously acted together in carrying out the criminal endeavor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an instrument or instrumentality which, because of the manner in which it is used, or attempted to be used, endangers the life or inflicts great bodily harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While we take issue with some of the reasoning in Shea , we do not necessarily disagree with the result the court reached in that case. In Shea , the danger posed by the ocean was not a result of the defendant bringing his victims into contact with that body of water, but rather the circumstances which followed when he deserted them, five miles from shore. We contrast this to a situation in which a defendant might drop his victim into a vat of acid, in which the mere contact with the substance would directly pose the risk of serious bodily harm.”
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.