Commonwealth v. Lucien’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hoffman v. United States · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Grace · Chester Jordan v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision to deny a motion for a new trial lies within the sound discretion of the judge and will not be reversed unless it is manifestly unjust or the trial was infected with prejudicial constitutional error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has discretion to exclude irrelevant evidence, sua sponte, provided he does not exhibit bias in the process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. M.G. v. G.A.“It is not enough to say that counsel had discouraged [her] from testifying.”
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.