Commonwealth v. DiBennadetto’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Clerk-Magistrate of the West Roxbury Division of the District Court Department (2003), Commonwealth v. Humberto H. (2013)
27 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 Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc. v. Operation Rescue · McGuinness v. Commonwealth · Dunbrack v. Commonwealth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he issuance of a complaint by a clerk-magistrate is not to be revisited by a further show cause hearing; the defendant's remedy is a motion to dismiss the complaint.... [A] motion to dismiss ... is the appropriate and only way to challenge a finding of probable cause. After the issuance of a complaint, a motion to dismiss will lie for a failure to present sufficient evidence to the clerk-magistrate (or judge) ... for a violation of the integrity of the proceeding ... or for any other challenge to the validity of the complaint." 2 , 3”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the [juvenile's] remedy is a motion to dismiss the complaint.”
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.