Commonwealth v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pope (1974), Commonwealth v. Hudson (1974)
25 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 Stirone v. United States · Mounce v. United States · Seatrain Lines, Inc. v. United States · Commonwealth v. Komatowski · Commonwealth v. Cano
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two or more offenses, of any grade, other than murder, may be charged in the same indictment if they are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan. There shall be a separate count for each offense charged.” [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One cannot be convicted or sentenced for an indictable offense unless the grand jury has approved an indictment covering that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.