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← 431 MASS 492 - Commonwealth v. Super

Commonwealth v. Super’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
August 2010
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wood v. Strickland · Richardson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Costarelli v. Commonwealth · Selectmen of Topsfield v. State Racing Commission

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that there is no requirement that the prosecution answer ready for trial as a condition precedent to commencing a criminal trial”
    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.