Commonwealth v. Latney’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2018
19 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Commissioner v. Engle · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Curley v. United States · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co.
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.
“to situations in which any view of the Commonwealth's evidence, however favorable, still requires a leap of conjecture with respect to essential elements of the crime charged in order to obtain a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant's mere possession of recently stolen property may be relied upon by the jury as evidence that he had stolen it.”
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.