Commonwealth v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Costello v. United States · United States v. Williams · United States v. Mandujano · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. McCarthy
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the very least the grand jury must hear sufficient evidence to establish the identity of the accused ... and probable cause to arrest him”
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.