Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
3
states following
October 2021
most recently cited
32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Commonwealth v. Matchett · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Devereaux · Commonwealth v. Lopez
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that he or she intended to kill or to cause grievous bodily harm, or intended to do an act which, in the circumstances known to the defendant, a reasonable person would have known created a plain and strong likelihood that death would result.”
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.