Commonwealth v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Goodreau (2004), Commonwealth v. Furr (2009)
2 district · 41 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Commonwealth v. Amirault · Commonwealth v. Duquette · Commonwealth v. Moore
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We grant substantial deference to a decision denying a rule 30(b) motion ... when the judge passing on the motion is the same judge who heard the plea,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“had the right to reject as not credible the defendant's self-serving, conclusory affidavit.”
2 later decisions 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.