Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. White · Commonwealth v. Cuffie
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here 'error pertains to the definition given to the jury of the crime charged, the possibility of a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice is inherent'”
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.