Commonwealth v. Goldstein’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 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 Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Coonan · Commonwealth v. Novicki
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard of sufficiency has been defined as whether the grand jury heard reasonably trustworthy information ... sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the defendant had committed or was committing an offense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is not the appropriate forum for reconciling subtle gradations of offenses, such as we have here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an investigatory and accusatory body only,”
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.