Commonwealth v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2003
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Michelson v. United States · Roberts v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Gardner · Commonwealth v. Belton · Commonwealth v. Porter
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The excluded testimony ... bore only on the issue of consent, not on veracity. Wigmore, Evidence, § 924b (B) (Chadbourn rev. 1970). The convictions on the other indictments are therefore not affected by the error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the witness demonstrated knowledge of the complainant's general reputation for chastity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could only properly go to the weight to be accorded her testimony,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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