Commonwealth v. Hanlon’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Walker (2004), Commonwealth v. Alves (2001)
26 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 · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the last witness claimed to have been abused ... nine years after the last charged act, this testimony was not too remote, given the continuing nature of the pattern, and the striking similarity of each incident to the charged acts.”
2 later decisions 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.