Commonwealth v. Howze’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2022
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 Missouri v. Hunter · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. St. Pierre · Luk v. Commonwealth
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the act of removing the victim's clothing was sufficiently bound up with and necessary to the act of penetration that due process [forbade] separating the conduct into discrete units for prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“continuous stream of conduct occurring within a short time frame and governed by a single criminal design,”
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.