Commonwealth v. Lodge’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grandison (2001), Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago (2009)
2 district · 59 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bates v. State Bar · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant has inserted into the case the relevance of the police judgment and decisions; the officer must be allowed to defend that judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a general expression of the officer's opinion of guilt, followed by a recital of all the evidence against the defendant, is not permitted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“circumstantial evidence is competent to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.