Commonwealth v. Dostie’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2019
20 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 Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Sanna · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Polian
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury may not use conjecture or guesswork to choose between alternative inferences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in carefully defined circumstances, a jury [are permitted] to make an inference based on an inference to come to a conclusion of guilt or innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were not left free to premise their verdict[s] on speculative inferences.”
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.