Commonwealth v. Finney’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 1979
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Hill · Commonwealth v. Cushnie · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Grays · Commonwealth v. Walker
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stated positively that he communicated to the defendant the likelihood of a two and one-half to five year sentence. He further stated that such a communication resulted from a conversation among him [defense counsel], the Assistant District Attorney and the trial Judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“corroborated by some other source which is accepted as truthful.”
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.