Commonwealth v. Fernandes’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36
cited by 36 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Amirault · Commonwealth v. Cantres · Commonwealth v. Harrington
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A complaint or indictment will not be dismissed ... 'if the offense is charged with sufficient clarity to show a violation of law and to permit the defendant to know the nature of the accusation against him.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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“Article 12 requires some statement regarding the prior conviction before a defendant can be subjected to an enhanced penalty”
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.