Commonwealth v. Gomes’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
2 district · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Commonwealth does not have the burden of proving no one else may have committed the murder,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“burden is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to further the legitimate penological and security interests of the sheriff”
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.