Commonwealth v. Lapointe’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Warren (2008), Commonwealth v. Cory (2009)
32 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 United States v. Virginia · United States v. Bolinger · Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe · United States v. Loy · Commonwealth v. Jackson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A probation condition is enforceable, even if it infringes on a defendant’s ability to exercise constitutionality protected rights, so long as the condition is 'reasonably related' to the goals of sentencing and probation.”) 7 . See Del.Code Ann. tit. 11, ch. 67”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The principal goals of probation are rehabilitation of the defendant and protection of the public,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“punishment, deterrence, and retribution.”
2 later decisions 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.