Commonwealth v. Dirico’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2022
5 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 Barker v. Wingo · Doggett v. United States · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Beckett
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[w]e are in as good a position as the judge below to decide whether the time limits imposed by [rule 36 (b)] have run' where the judge's findings, as here, rest solely on the docket, the clerk's minutes, and additional evidence in the record”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a criminal defendant who is not brought to trial within one year of the date of arraignment is presumptively entitled to dismissal of the charges unless the Commonwealth justifies the delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“specifically enumerated under rule 36 (b) (2). Such periods include, for example,”
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.