Santiago v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Stogner v. California (2003), Commonwealth v. Grandison (2001)
8 federal appellate · 66 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 Bouie v. City of Columbia · Collins v. Youngblood · Breed v. Jones · Frank v. Mangum · Commonwealth v. Balliro
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any language contained in [Mass. Gen. L. ch. 119, § 72] relating to the age limitation for persons over whom the juvenile court may exercise power and authority ... the divisions of the juvenile court department and the juvenile sessions of the trial courts shall continue to have jurisdiction over persons whose cases were properly commenced in juvenile court, regardless of the current age of the person charged, pending final adjudication of such cases, including all remands and retrials following appeals from such cases. SECTION 5. Section 3 of this act shall apply to complaints filed and indictments returned for offenses allegedly committed between December 31, 1991 and September 30, 1996, inclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Santiago v. Spencer“law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed.'”
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.