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← 83 MASSAPPCT 737 - Commonwealth v. Holmes

Commonwealth v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2014
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Tucker v. Peyton · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Chalifoux v. Commissioner of Correction · Brown v. Commissioner of Correction

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.

  1. “[i]n some circumstances, a defendant may be allowed to credit time in an unrelated case if necessary to prevent a defendant from serving 'dead time,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “As with most sentencing disputes, a specific chronology is useful to clarify the issues.”
    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.