Commonwealth v. Fredette’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 2022
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Massa v. United States · Commonwealth v. Grace · People v. Aaron
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.
“[f]irst, if the underlying predicate felony has an intent or purpose separate and distinct from the act causing physical injury or death, the merger doctrine is inapplicable, and ... no further analysis is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the felony does not have an independent intent or purpose, the second inquiry is whether the conduct constituting the felony is separate and distinct from the conduct that caused the homicide itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]ecause the crime of ...... kidnapping has an independent felonious purpose from the intent to cause physical injury or death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.