Commonwealth v. Santos’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Cordle · Green v. Board of Appeals of Provincetown · Board of Education v. School Committee of Quincy · Commonwealth v. George · Commonwealth v. Florence F.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a child can be adjudicated a delinquent only after proceedings upon a complaint alleging the child to be a delinquent child within the meaning of § 52”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a child between seven and seventeen who violates any city ordinance or town by-law or who commits any offence against a law of the commonwealth.”
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.