Commonwealth v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Old Chief v. United States · Commonwealth v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. McCoy · Loring v. Mercier · Commonwealth v. Parenteau
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.
“although the decision to bifurcate is committed to the judge's discretion, it is an option worthy of serious consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“how an individual's license is suspended and how the RMV provides notification to that individual by mail”
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.