Commonwealth v. Alfonso’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wellesley College v. Attorney General · Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester · Attorney General v. School Committee of Essex · Commonwealth v. D'Amour · Commonwealth v. King
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes that relate to a common subject matter should be construed together so as to constitute an harmonious whole”
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.