Commonwealth v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Vinson v. Kelly · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. Bruno · Barry v. Commonwealth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant shares the obligation to take active steps to move his case through the system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. G.F.
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.