Commonwealth v. DeCicco’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2020
2 district · 14 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 Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“differs from common law arson in two respects. Firstly, the statute includes within its terms the burning of one's own dwelling. Secondly, one building containing many dwelling units falls within the definition of a 'dwelling house' in § 1, whereas at common law, each unit is a separate dwelling”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one half years”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“or by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or by such fine and imprisonment”
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.