Commonwealth v. Millican’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
4 district · 23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Jones · Sterilite Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co. · Hanlon v. Rollins · Commonwealth v. Jackson · Commonwealth v. Gove
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he language of the statute is the primary source of insight into the intent of the Legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“according to the intent of the Legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the main object to be accomplished”
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.