Commonwealth v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Blackwell v. Com. State Ethics Com'n (1991), State v. Chow (1994)
36 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 Green v. United States · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Reddish · Commonwealth v. Cabeza · Commonwealth v. Knighton · Lush v. Commissioner of Education of New York
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of sentencing, the judge shall: (a) afford the defendant the opportunity to make a statement in his own behalf and afford counsel for both parties an opportunity to present argument and information relative to sentencing;”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.