Commonwealth v. Joseph’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2023
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sherman v. United States · Ingalls v. Roosevelt County · Optimal Data Corp. v. United States · Commonwealth v. Faulkner · Commonwealth v. Duff
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the uncertainty surrounding such sentences, and the disorder they can engender, that prompts their prohibition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An indefinitely suspended sentence is not a sanctioned sentencing alternative.”
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.