Commonwealth v. Benitez’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited
2 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Whitehead
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.
“knowingly participated with [her coventurers] in the commission of [an] [un]armed robbery and shared the necessary intent for the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by applying actual force to the victim or putting the victim in fear through the use of threatening words or gestures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[took] money or other property from the victim,”
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.