Commonwealth v. Dale D.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Champigny v. Commonwealth · Telesetsky v. Wight · Lataille v. District Court of Eastern Hampden · Commonwealth v. DiBenedetto · Commonwealth v. DiBenedetto
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature intended to give prosecutors greater discretion when proceeding against violent juvenile offenders, and to reduce or eliminate protections previously afforded to delinquent children”
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.