Commonwealth v. Maloney’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2022
2 district · 21 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Carmell v. Texas · McGinnis v. Hadix
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, prior to trial, or, with the consent of the defendant, after conviction of the defendant, a question of law arises which the trial judge determines is so important or doubtful as to require the decision of the Appeals Court, the judge may report the case so far as necessary to present the question of law arising therein. If the case is reported prior to trial, the case shall be continued for trial to await the decision of the Appeals Court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“we construe statutes to avoid constitutional problems where possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re Chapman
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.