Commonwealth v. Cabrera’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Descamps v. United States (2013), Commonwealth v. Vick (2009)
2 district · 27 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Ashe v. Swenson · Kercheval v. United States · Difronzo v. United States · ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of breaking and entering in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony are (1) breaking and (2) entering a building, ship, vessel or vehicle belonging to another (3) at night, (4) with the intent to commit a felony”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Collateral estoppel guarantees that 'when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By pleading guilty, the defendant gave up his right * to pursue a challenge to [the sufficiency of the evidence], and therefore his plea generated a judgment that is final ...”
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.