Dennison v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2000
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any penalty, forfeiture or punishment is mitigated by any provision of the new law, such provision may, by the consent of the party affected, be applied to any judgment pronounced after the new law takes effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Phon
How this case has been treated — in progress
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