Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Alphas · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi · Commonwealth v. Amirault · Commonwealth v. Dockham
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invest[ed] . . . with spontaneity and plausibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. WB
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.