Commonwealth v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
December 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Ashe v. Swenson · Brown v. Ohio · Custis v. United States · Standefer 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Collateral estoppel, as applied in criminal proceedings, becomes applicable only when the defendant's prior acquittal necessarily resolved a factual issue that the Commonwealth seeks to litigate again in a subsequent proceeding.”
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.