Commonwealth v. Lamont L.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Farrell v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company · Beneficial Finance Co. v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. King
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]n a criminal case, any ... objection based upon defects ... in the complaint or indictment, other than a failure to show jurisdiction in the court or to charge an offense, shall only be raised prior to trial ....' Failing to object to such a defect prior to trial ordinarily waives any argument pertaining to that defect.”
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.