Commonwealth v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 district · 5 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 Teague v. Lane · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Commonwealth v. Grey · Commonwealth v. Sires · Commonwealth v. Sanna
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a conviction is final, and the defendant is proceeding with a collateral challenge, new criminal rules should not be applied retroactively unless they fall within either of two very limited exceptions.”
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.