Commonwealth v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. v. Blankenship · Commonwealth v. Amirault · Aldoupolis v. Commonwealth · McGuinness v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. LeBlanc
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.
““(a) Revision or Revocation. The trial judge upon his own motion or the written motion of a defendant filed within sixty days after the imposition of a sentence . . . may upon such terms and conditions as he shall order, revise or revoke such sentence if it appears that justice may not have been done” (emphasis added).”
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.