Baker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
3
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Benham · Commonwealth v. Sawhill · Kimbrough v. Commonwealth · West v. Commonwealth · Campbell v. Commonwealth
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant must renew his motion for a directed verdict, thus allowing the trial court the opportunity to pass on the issue in light of all the evidence, in order to be preserved for our review.”
2 later decisions 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.