Commonwealth v. Hokanson’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
August 2021
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Mickens v. Taylor · Commonwealth v. Orlando · Commonwealth v. McGovern · Commonwealth v. Sholley
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant utters a threat to a third party who 'would likely communicate it to [the ultimate target],' . . . the defendant's act constitutes evidence of [his] intent to communicate the threat to the intended victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the average bystander would have found the [juvenile's] conduct at the time of his arrest,”
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.