Commonwealth v. Mercado’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. McHoul · Commonwealth v. Martin
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality [wrongfulness] of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robidoux v. O'Brien
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.