Commonwealth v. Dykens’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. · United States v. Resendiz-Ponce · Commonwealth v. Peaslee · Commonwealth v. Kennedy · Commonwealth v. Rabb
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether two ... discrete offenses were proved under that statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“determine the appropriate 'unit of prosecution', we 'look to the language and purpose of the statute[ ], to see whether [it] speak[s] directly to the issue of the appropriate unit of prosecution.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where an indictment fails to allege a fact necessary to constitute an offense, it is defective, and 'no court has jurisdiction to entertain it'”
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.