Commonwealth v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Coleman · United States v. Moore · Commonwealth v. Souza · 27 Mass. App. Ct. 746 - Commonwealth v. Johnson · 4 Mass. App. Ct. 493 - Commonwealth v. Murray
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial judge may not consider a defendant's alleged perjury on the witness stand in determining the punishment to impose for a criminal conviction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“testifying on his own behalf, the defendant was adamant”
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.