Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 2015
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Landry v. Attorney General · Brown v. Commissioner of Correction
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the issue is how the crime itself may potentially be punished, not how a particular defendant before a particular court may be punished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not affect the nature of the defendant's crime and make an offense which is defined by statute as a felony a misdemeanor”
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.