Commonwealth v. Wolinski’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Vick (2009), Commonwealth v. Santos (2003)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anthony v. United States · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Tavares
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the former an assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon must have occurred, but there need not be any larceny; for the latter an assault with a dangerous weapon and larceny must have occurred, but there need not be any battery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“revealed the defendant's rational effort at self-preservation, and ... clearly reflected rational choice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“insufficient alone to require a finding of involuntariness”
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.