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← 80 MASSAPPCT 45 - Commonwealth v. Fortuna

Commonwealth v. Fortuna’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Montanez · Commonwealth v. Azar · Commonwealth v. LeFave

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[M]aking a mere 'effort' or 'attempt' is plainly not enough”
    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.