Commonwealth v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Azar · Commonwealth v. LeFave · Commonwealth v. Connolly
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the defendant was tried solely on a theory of impaired operation, [ 11 ] the Commonwealth was required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that alcohol diminished the defendant's ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In sum, ... we 'have a serious doubt whether the result of the trial might have been different had the error not been made.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for an essentially technical violation: running a red light after safely stopping and looking both ways”
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.