Commonwealth v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Tyree (2010)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 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 Franks v. Delaware · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Minnesota v. Olson · Adair v. United States · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error but conduct an independent review of [the] ultimate findings and conclusions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a sudden transport of heat of passion or heat of blood, upon reasonable provocation and without malice, or upon sudden combat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on a hypothesis not supported by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Pina
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.