Commonwealth v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Lockhart v. Nelson · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Keener v. United States
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.
“In reviewing evidentiary sufficiency, the Latimore standard governs, that is, 'whether the evidence, in its light most favorable to the Commonwealth, ... is sufficient ... to permit the jury to infer the existence of the essential elements of the crime charged.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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