Commonwealth v. Shea’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Breed v. Jones · United States v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority · Bolster v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation · Commonwealth v. Harris
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e begin with the proposition that 'a judge has considerable latitude within the framework of the applicable statute to determine the appropriate individualized sentence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An illegal sentence is one that is not permitted by law for the offense committed.”
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.