Commonwealth v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Davis v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bowden · SCOFBP, LLC v. Central States · Commonwealth v. Casale
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an inference is warranted or is impermissibly remote must be determined, not by hard and fast rules of law, but by experience and common sense”
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.