Commonwealth v. Basile’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Delaney · 34 Mass. App. Ct. 446 - Commonwealth v. Tate · Commonwealth v. Russell · Commonwealth v. Crimmins
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ broadly; there are many ways to achieve a communication.”
2 later decisions 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.