Bynum v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Welch (2005), Commonwealth v. Miranda (2004)
32 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 Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Monge v. California · Robinson v. State of California · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prior offense is not an element of the crime for which a defendant is charged but concerns the punishment to be imposed if he is convicted ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny person convicted of violating the provisions of subsection [c] after one or more prior convictions”
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.