Commonwealth v. Penn’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Miller v. Alabama · Presley v. Georgia
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, 'after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“we recite the evidence in the Commonwealth's case-in-chief . . . in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we are substantially confident that, if the error had not been made, the jury verdict would have been the same”
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.