Commonwealth v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2022
9 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 Kansas v. Hendricks · Smith v. Doe · Commonwealth v. Latimore · El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Neztsosie · Smith v. Massachusetts
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.
“when determining whether an offense is a like offense? or like violation,' we consider whether the elements of each underlying criminal act' are sufficiently similar under all of the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n act is done 'knowingly' if it is the 'product of conscious design, intent or plan that it be done, and is done with awareness of probable consequences'”
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.