Commonwealth v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Adams · Commonwealth v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Connor
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I don’t want to stay on the jury [incomprehensible writing]. Not guilty, I want to go home. May I never go through this again. Now I got to, got to — home. Guilty. So I bring in — so I bring in to go home.””
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.