Commonwealth v. Mendes’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Curley v. United States · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co. · Commonwealth v. LaCorte
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt”
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.