Commonwealth v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pillai (2005), Commonwealth v. Forte (2014)
33 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. Lane · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Di Carlo v. United States · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does the lack of a limiting instruction necessarily create a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no requirement that the judge give limiting instructions sua sponte.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) Related Offenses. Two or more offenses are related offenses if they are based on the same criminal conduct or episode or arise out of a course of criminal conduct or series of criminal episodes connected together or constituting parts of a single scheme or plan. “(3) Joinder of Related Offenses for Trial. If a defendant is charged with two or more related offenses, either party may move for joinder of such charges. The trial judge shall join the charges for trial unless he determines that joinder is not in the best interests of justice.””
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.