Commonwealth v. Carrion’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2021
20 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 Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Bailey · Commonwealth v. Chavis · Commonwealth v. Roucoulet · Commonwealth v. Hughes
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is within common understanding that § 26 [of G. L. c. 120] is applicable to any escape from custody of [DYS]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'escape' [means] 'absenting oneself from custody without permission'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hoever escapes, or attempts to escape from [DYS].”
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.