Lykus v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
March 2017
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daniels v. Lassalle · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Licata · Commonwealth v. Garcia
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.
“As the defendant did not raise this issue before the lower court, or the single justice, it is not properly before us on appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Munguia
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.