Commonwealth v. Nolin’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), State v. ANGEL T. (2009)
38 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 Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Doyle v. Ohio · Morissette v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any consequences from the delay adverse to [the defendant] were sufficiently mitigated by the judge's grant of delay and funds to prepare the cross-examination of the [witness]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts. So, in considering intent, remember that.”
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.