Commonwealth v. Phap Buth’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Gunter · Commonwealth v. James
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“According to the merger doctrine, a defendant can only be convicted of felony-murder if he or she committed ... a felony that is independent of the conduct necessary to cause the victim's death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the felony on which a charge of felony-murder is premised may be uncharged, so long as the evidence supports it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowingly participated in the commission of the [kidnapping] with the intent required for that offense.”
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.