Commonwealth v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2020
7 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. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Santana · Commonwealth v. Garcia · Commonwealth v. Pratt · Commonwealth v. Sinforoso
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o prove the defendant guilty as a joint venturer, the Commonwealth was required to prove that he was present at the scene of the crime, had knowledge that another intended to commit the crime and shared the intent to commit the crime, and by agreement was willing and available to help the other if necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under the joint venture theory, for a trafficking conviction, the defendant need -21- not have possessed the drugs, actually or constructively. He need only have shared the intent of the principal to distribute.”
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.