Commonwealth v. Hagan’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kimball (1999), Commonwealth v. Kelley (2002)
3 federal appellate · 54 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 In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · Commonwealth v. Rhodes · Commonwealth v. Bell · Commonwealth v. Williams · Marshall v. Port Authority
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, we must determine whether the evidence, and all reasonable inferences deducible from that, viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner, are sufficient to establish all the elements of the offenses beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The inclusion of 'any vehicle' in the statute demonstrates that the legislature did not intend to limit this statute to buildings.”
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.