Commonwealth v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Emerson College v. City of Boston · Commonwealth v. Scott · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Chin v. Merriot · Town of Oxford v. Oxford Water Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although the defendant's guilty plea was vacated, ... [his] conviction was merely voidable, not void ab initio, as the defendant suggests”
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.