Commonwealth v. Deane’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schmuck v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Chemical Manufacturers Ass'n v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Tanner v. United States · Velasquez v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is reversible error only if the requested instruction was substantially correct; was not substantively covered in the jury charge; and concerns an important issue such that the failure to give the instruction seriously impaired the defendant's ability to present a given defense.”
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.