Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2002
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on White v. Illinois · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Sanna · Commonwealth v. Claudio · Commonwealth v. Signorine
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[An offender] shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of not less than twenty years.””
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.