Commonwealth v. DePace’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Doyle v. Ohio · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. Gunter · Commonwealth v. Baker
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encompasses lesser included offenses such as murder in the second degree and manslaughter.”
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.