Commonwealth v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2018
20 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Commissioner v. Engle · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Casale · United States v. Smith
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[flact finders are not required to divorce themselves of common sense, but rather should apply to facts which they find proven such reasonable inferences as are justified in the light of their experience as to the natural inclinations of human beings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. M.K. v. Doyle · State v. Smith“There was no evidentiary gap in the Commonwealth's case, merely a question of the weight to be accorded”
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.