Commonwealth v. Keohane’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
3
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Grace
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven where sufficient provocation exists, if a defendant leaves the scene of the provocation ... and then returns to attack the victim, the defendant is considered to have had adequate opportunity for his anger to subside”
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.