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← 71 MASSAPPCT 737 - Commonwealth v. King

Commonwealth v. King’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Durling · Commonwealth v. Holmgren · Commonwealth v. Wilcox · Commonwealth v. Maggio · Fay 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is based only on a preponderance of the evidence, not proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    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.