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← 435 MASS 455 - Commonwealth v. Lapointe

Commonwealth v. Lapointe’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
6
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “The principal goals of probation are rehabilitation of the defendant and protection of the public,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “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.