Commonwealth v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Tollett v. Henderson
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[0]n October 30, 2008, this [d]efendant arrived home, the police were at his residence when he arrived home. They asked him — He was excited, they asked him to calm down and they brought him outside. There was a crowd gathering; he continued to disturb the area. When the police went to place him under arrest for this, he resisted their arrest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hart
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.