Commonwealth v. Perella’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Toussie v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · United States v. Scharton · United States v. Habig · Commonwealth v. McCarthy
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an indictment and a complaint are the products of two distinct procedures, and are not interchangeable labels for the commencement of a criminal proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finn v. Commonwealth“within [fifteen] years of the date of commission of [the] offense,”
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.