Commonwealth v. Lao’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably United States v. Summers (2005), Commonwealth v. Walker (2011)
5 federal appellate · 78 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 Shieh v. State Bar · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Casale · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. Longo
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the evidence offered by the Commonwealth, together with reasonable inferences therefrom, * when viewed in its light most favorable to the Commonwealth, was sufficient to persuade a rational jury beyond a reasonable doubt of the existence of every element of the crime charged.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“conviction may not rest on the piling of inference upon inference or on conjecture and speculation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“need only be reasonable and possible and need not be necessary or inescapable.”
3 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.