Commonwealth v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Azar (2002), Commonwealth v. Niemic (1998)
2 district · 42 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 Anthony v. United States · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Tavares · Commonwealth v. Cunneen · Commonwealth v. Mello
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“here, the evidence could have “warranted] a finding of a risk of harm less than a strong likelihood of death.” ... Although the injuries to the baby were severe and ultimately fatal, the injuries were not inflicted in a manner from which malice is ineluctably inferred.... Unlike those cases, the evidence here could be viewed either as tending to prove a strong and plain likelihood of death or as tending to prove conduct that involved a high degree of likelihood that substantial harm will happen to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Avellar v. Dubois
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.