Commonwealth v. Arias’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Tanner · Jenkins v. Chief Justice of the District Court Department · Commonwealth v. DiBennadetto
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case of a person under arrest, it is not the Clerk’s function to review whether there was in fact probable cause for the arrest, nor to judge whether the Commonwealth ultimately will fail in its prosecution of the case. Only the judge can review these matters when the accused is brought before [the judge. 13 ] The Clerk’s func-tian in arrest cases is largely administrative; it is designed primarily to insure prompt preparation of the Complaint for use in the courtroom.””
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.