Commonwealth v. Leggett’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Scott
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The components of the scheme work in combination, not isolation.... The subtraction of one or more of the scheme's interdependent elements may disrupt its intended proportions and purposes, and warrant its entire reconstruction within statutory limits by the sentencing judge or a successor”
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.