Commonwealth v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Roberts · Commonwealth v. Swenson · Commonwealth v. Bianco
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he appearance and interests of justice [would] be better served by resentencing' ... before a different judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“freely place on record [her] sentencing philosophy and particularized sentencing rationale”
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.