Mullins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2010
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Foley · Hatchett v. City of Glasgow · Walton v. Carter · 362 F. Supp. 739 - Hamilton v. Ford
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.
“[T]he legislature has the power to designate what is a crime and the sentences for violations thereof.”
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.