Commonwealth v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Spence v. Educational Credit Management Corp. · SCOFBP, LLC v. Central States · Commonwealth v. Walden
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.