Commonwealth v. Desrosier’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 2013
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Henderson v. Morgan · Commonwealth v. Foster · Commonwealth v. DeMarco
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant heard a detailed recitation of the evidence against him, and stated that he did not have any reason to doubt the veracity of that evidence; he acknowledged he admitted [the] killing ... to numerous persons; [he] affirmed he had discussed possible defenses with his attorney; defense counsel testified, he had discussed the evidence with the defendant, and they had ‘assessed everything’; and there is no suggestion that the defendant was not on notice of the charges contained in the indictment.”
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.