Commonwealth v. Hoyle’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Commonwealth v. Duquette · Commonwealth v. Lopez · Commonwealth v. Fanelli · Commonwealth v. Correa
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.
““Given the time lapse and the resulting lack of District Court records, ‘[t]he presumption of regularity and the policy of finality thus come into play ... to place on the defendant the requirement of showing some basis that adequately supports a negation of his convictions . . . .’ This presumption of regularity, normally afforded collateral review of proceedings in which the record has been lost or destroyed, stands, unless and until a defendant advances countervailing credible and persuasive evidence sufficient to rebut that presumption.””
2 later decisions 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.