Locke v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 4 Cal. 3d 370 - Richard M. v. Superior Court · 168 F. Supp. 899 - United States v. Dickerson · D'URBANO v. Commonwealth · Pruitt v. Guerry · 245 F. Supp. 55 - Sawyer v. Hauck
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.
““Appellant’s case differs from both of these in that juvenile investigatory proceedings were instituted but culminated in no charge being made and without an adjudicatory trial, thus at the time of the indictment appellant had attained the age of 18 years and there was, at that time, no juvenile proceedings pending.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Anderson
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.