Commonwealth v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. Matchett · Commonwealth v. Amirault · Commonwealth v. Gunter · Commonwealth v. Berry
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.
“the felony on which a charge of felony-murder is premised may be uncharged, so long as the evidence supports it”
2 later decisions 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.