Commonwealth v. Velasquez’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Ortega (2004), Commonwealth v. Gonzalez (2008)
2 district · 29 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Montanez · Commonwealth v. Brzezinski
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt' (emphasis in original).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“ask itself whether it believes that the evidence at the trial established guilt beyond a reasonable doubt”
2 later decisions 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.