Commonwealth v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Peloquin (2002), Commonwealth v. Levesque (2002)
29 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. Freeman · Alabama v. Battles · United States v. Kenny · Attorney General v. Pelletier · Commonwealth v. Pike
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s long as the evidence before the grand jury was sufficient to warrant a conclusion of probable cause and the integrity of the proceedings was unimpaired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would add delay and complexity without serving any significant purpose”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prosecutor should have provided the appropriate information”
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.