Commonwealth v. Doucette’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mattei (2010), Commonwealth v. Toon (2002)
2 federal appellate · 31 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. Levia · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Doherty · Commonwealth v. Roderick
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant (1) 'knowingly entered the dwelling place of another'; (2) 'knowing or having reason to know that one or more persons are present within'; (3) 'while armed with a dangerous weapon'; and (4) 'used force or threatened the imminent use of force upon any person within such dwelling place ....'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he judge's instructions permitting the jury to consider self-defense by the use of deadly force ... granted the defendant a benefit to which he was not entitled.”
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.