Commonwealth v. Iacoviello’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Domanski · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi
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.
“The likelihood of death ensuing when a loaded weapon is aimed at a person ... and then intentionally discharged is plain and strong indeed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“before sufficient time had elapsed for the [defendant's] temper to cool.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“lose his self-control in the heat of passion”
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.