14 Mass. App. Ct. 137 - Commonwealth v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2018
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ungar v. Sarafite · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. Jackson · Commonwealth v. Cavanaugh · Lewis v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial judge retains discretion to determine whether the jury should receive a special instruction with respect to the credibility of a young witness, and if so, the nature of that instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“charge placed adequate emphasis on the objective factors by which the jury should determine the veracity of witnesses in general”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“aware that their principal task was to determine the credibility of the victim's testimony”
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.