Commonwealth v. Netto’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Colon (2007)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Abel v. United States · Adair v. United States · Federal Kemper Life Assurance Co. v. Bodine · United States v. Huffhines · Commonwealth v. Montanez
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Knowledge that a fellow joint venturer is armed may be inferred when, from the circumstances of the crime, a victim's resistance is reasonably to be anticipated such that the participants in the crime would have recognized the need for some means by which to overcome that resistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“burden is initially on the defendant[ ] to demonstrate that [he] had a reasonable expectation of privacy .... Thus, if the record is unclear ... it is the defendant[ ] -- not the Commonwealth -- who [has] failed to meet [his] burden of proof ...”
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.