Commonwealth v. Spearin’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Keyes v. Huckleberry House · Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester · Hanlon v. Rollins · Commonwealth v. Gabbidon · Commonwealth v. Chappee
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.
“[W]hether a particular element of a crime was contested at trial is important to a determination whether a trial error resulted in a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not relate to an issue actively contested at trial, no substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice result[s].”
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.