Commonwealth v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pytou Heang (2011), Commonwealth v. Forte (2014)
60 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 Zerman v. Melton · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Grandison · Commonwealth v. Kelley · Commonwealth v. Sanna
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we look only to the evidence presented by the Commonwealth, and disregard any contrary evidence presented by the [opposing party].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) the defendant operated a motor vehicle (2) on a public way (3) and collided with . . . another vehicle . . . ; (4) the defendant knew that he had collided with . . . that other vehicle . . . ; and (5) after such collision ... , the defendant did not stop and make known his name, address, and the registration number of his motor vehicle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]ecause the credibility of the defendant's witnesses and the weight of their testimony are issues for the jury to decide, the Commonwealth's case could not have deteriorated where the defendant's evidence at trial turned solely on the credibility of his witnesses.”
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.