Crawford v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2000
17 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 Wilder v. Commonwealth · Falden v. Commonwealth · Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County v. Lukinson · Durham v. Commonwealth · Johnson 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended to provide for the just determination of criminal proceedings. They shall be interpreted so as to promote uniformity and simplicity in procedure, fairness in administration, and the elimination of unjustifiable expense and delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“indictment or information shall be a plain, concise, and definite written statement, (1) naming the accused, (2) describing the offense charged,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.