Commonwealth v. Kopsala’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
2 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Cundriff · Ciummei v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Mamay · Commonwealth v. Sanchez
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“pulled up the victim's shirt, exposing her breasts, unbuttoned her jeans and pulled them off, and removed her panties”
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.