Commonwealth v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Joyce · Commonwealth v. Fisher · Commonwealth v. Barnes
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.
“grant[ ] 'special deference' to the rulings of a motion judge who, like the judge here, also presided at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one continuous course of criminal conduct directed at the victim.”
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.