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Commonwealth v. Cabrera’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “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.