Commonwealth v. Radecki’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
December 2025
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ungar v. Sarafite · Commonwealth v. Grant · Commonwealth v. Bomar · Millili v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · Commonwealth v. Lord
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of good character offered by a defendant in a criminal prosecution must be limited to his general reputation for the particular trait or traits of character involved in the commission of the crime charged. Such evidence must relate to a period at or about the time the offense was committed and must be established by testimony of witnesses as to the community opinion of the individual in question, not through specific acts or mere rumor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Issues not raised in the lower court are waived and cannot be raised for the first time on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a defendant may offer evidence of the defendant's pertinent trait[.]”
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.