Commonwealth v. Lawton’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Kozec
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with (2) a child under sixteen years of age.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A prosecutor can address, in a closing argument, a witness's demeanor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly a matter of strategy and not manifestly unreasonable.”
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.