Commonwealth v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Singer v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Shieh v. State Bar · Schick v. United States · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is reasonable for the Legislature to treat defendants facing a charge of murder in the first degree differently from other defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“life ... at stake ... in a way it is not where a lesser crime is charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“arguments are policy matters suitable for legislative consideration,”
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.