Commonwealth v. Prater’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Vick (2009), Commonwealth v. Lucien (2004)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Bruton v. United States · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · United States v. Mealy · Kansas v. Colorado · Commonwealth v. Alphas
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.
“[W]hen there are multiple possible explanations for a defendant's flight, it is for the jury to decide if the defendant's actions resulted from consciousness of guilt or some other reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f you find that [the victim] actually suffered bodily harm at the hand of the defendant, or at the action of the defendant, [the Commonwealth proved assault].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The focus of the analysis is on the substitution of the intent, not on the number of assaults”
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.