Commonwealth v. Serino’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Dusky v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Satterfield
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. Only the first prong of malice can support a conviction of deliberately premeditated murder. The judge correctly instructed the jury on the first prong of malice.... Any error in the instruction on the third prong of malice is nonprejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mello v. DiPaulo
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.