Commonwealth v. Pena’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
2
states following
July 2020
most recently cited
2 district · 26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Ungar v. Sarafite · Murphy v. Hunt
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a motion for continuance should be granted lies within the sound discretion of the judge, whose action will not be disturbed unless there is patent abuse of that discretion, which is to be determined in the circumstances of each case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]ubsequent convictions or guilty pleas render moot an appellate claim that a judge erred in determining that a probationer had violated the conditions of his probation by committing a new offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for determining whether the denial of a continuance constituted an abuse of discretion, Commonwealth v. Cavanaugh , 371 Mass. 46 , 51, 353 N.E.2d 732 (1976),”
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.