Commonwealth v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Pike · Commonwealth v. Lapointe · Commonwealth v. Rotonda · Aquino v. Civil Service Commission · Commonwealth v. Janovich
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may place on probation in the care of its probation officer any person before it charged with an offense or a crime for such time and upon such conditions as it deems proper ... in any case after a finding or verdict of guilty”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mere bond requiring a defendant to keep the peace”
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.