Commonwealth v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Liteky et al United States · Commonwealth v. Durling · Commonwealth v. Miles · In the Matter of United Shoe MacHinery Corporation, Movant · Fogarty v. Commonwealth
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.
“In light of all the evidence, including ... testimony and the police reports, the judge was warranted in finding ... that the defendant had violated the terms of his probation”
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.