Commonwealth v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. McBride · Commonwealth v. Brady · Commonwealth v. Parker White Metal Co. · Liciaga v. Court of Common Pleas · Commonwealth v. Thorpe
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Commonwealth bears the burden of establishing at least a prima facie case that a crime has been committed and that the accused is probably the one who committed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ditch v. Grace
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.