Commonwealth v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Walker (2011), Commonwealth v. Souza (1998)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 Commonwealth v. Latimore · McKay v. Jobin · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Kozec
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On March 28, 1993, at approximately 4 a.m., the defendants and the two victims, Kevin Christopher and Lloyd Industrious, were among a group of people gathered on Lindsay Street in the Dorches-ter section of Boston. A party at a Lindsay Street residence had just broken up, and the victims were sitting in a .motor vehicle. According to several eyewitnesses^ the defendants suddenly fired several shots at the victims, killing them. At least one of the defendants then approached, grabbed jewelry from one or both of the victims, and fled on foot. Christopher suffered eleven gunshot wounds and Industrious seven.”
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.