Commonwealth v. Brien’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2022
6 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 29 Mass. App. Ct. 225 - Commonwealth v. Gagliardi · Commonwealth v. Green · Commonwealth v. Fossa · Commonwealth v. Janvrin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant seeking relief as a result of delayed disclosure has the burden of showing that he was prejudiced by the delay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he legislative scheme -- providing strict liability for administrative sanctions . . . while in contrast requiring scienter for criminal prosecution -- is set forth unambiguously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“abandoning or failing to perform, without justification, any contract or project engaged in or undertaken by a registered contractor or subcontractor.”
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.