Commonwealth v. Biagiotti’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Selectmen of Topsfield v. State Racing Commission · Gurley v. Commonwealth · Surrey v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not our function to rewrite a statute”
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.