Commonwealth v. Braley’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Crayton (2014), Commonwealth v. Woods (2014)
49 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Rhode Island v. Innis · Doyle v. Ohio
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct rather than actions from which a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Acts of a joint venturer amounting to consciousness of guilt may be attributed to another joint venturer if the acts occurred during the course of a joint venture and in furtherance of it.' Commonwealth v. Mahoney , 405 Mass. 326 , 330-331, 540 N.E.2d 179 (1989). Cf. Commonwealth v. Andrews , 403 Mass. 441 , 452, 530 N.E.2d 1222 (1988) (if joint venture has ended, subsequent actions of joint venturer cannot be admitted against another).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Firing a rifle multiple times, directed toward specific individuals, provides a sufficient basis to conclude that the defendant understood the likely deadly consequences of his actions”
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.