Commonwealth v. Bynoe’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2023
13 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 Arizona v. Fulminante · Neder v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Freeman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive amendment to an indictment occurs when either the government (usually during its presentation of evidence and/or its argument), the court (usually through its instructions to the jury), or both, broadens the possible bases for conviction beyond those presented by the grand jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It can be readily inferred from the record before us that the lack of objection by defense counsel was based upon a deliberate decision rather than an oversight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an acquittal on the original charge would not bar prosecution on the amended charge.”
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.