Commonwealth v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Wright · Simon v. Solomon · Commonwealth v. Cunneen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Commonwealth may submit a case wholly on circumstantial evidence, and inferences drawn from that evidence need only be reasonable and possible; [they] need not be necessary or inescapable”
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.