Commonwealth v. Phinney’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Conceicao · Commonwealth v. Phinney · Commonwealth v. Gonsalves · Lavallee v. Justices in the Hampden Superior Court · Commonwealth v. Phinney
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to equalize the resources of the defendant with those of the Commonwealth' in cases where a defendant does not have court-appointed counsel but is forced to defend against a Commonwealth appeal; and to prevent a defendant's privately retained counsel from being placed 'in the untenable position of either volunteering his services on appeal or abandoning the defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ruiz“authorize[s] awards of appellate fees and costs to defendants in those situations where the Commonwealth is entitled to appeal, or seek leave to appeal, from trial court rulings in a defendant's favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ruiz
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.