Commonwealth v. Niels N.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio · United States v. Dixon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here offenses are so closely related in fact that they in substance constitute a single crime, the jury are to be instructed that convictions on those offenses must rest on separate and distinct acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we review to determine whether there was error and, if so, whether the error created a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
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.