Commonwealth v. Lowder’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Arizona v. Washington · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · Ball v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evaluated the [Commonwealth's] evidence and determined that it was legally insufficient to sustain a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the evidence is insufficient as a matter of law to sustain a conviction.”
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.