Commonwealth v. Alebord’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Sires · Commonwealth v. Santiago
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent some evidence that the defendant's knowledge was impaired, intentionally discharging a firearm in the direction of another person creates a plain and strong likelihood of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The likelihood of death ensuing when a loaded weapon is aimed at a person or group of people and then intentionally discharged is plain and strong indeed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lugo
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.