Commonwealth v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
54
cited by 54 later decisions
2
states following
December 1989
most recently cited
54 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Evening News Ass'n v. Arber · Commonwealth v. Novak · Commonwealth v. Simala · Evans v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is clear that a person may be convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence alone so long as the reasonable inferences arising from such evidence proves the fact in question beyond a reasonable doubt.””
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.