Cartera v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Coppola v. Commonwealth (1979), Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth (1982)
110 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 Webb v. Commonwealth · Pepoon v. Commonwealth · Herron 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the other evidence amply supports the jury's verdicts, [error is not harmless when] the disputed testimony may well have affected the jury's decision.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“recite the details of the offenses and the description of the assailant, as reported to him [or her] by the victim[ ].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Wjhile an expert witness may be permitted to express his opinion relative to the existence or nonexistence of facts not within common knowledge, he cannot give his opinion upon the precise or ultimate fact in issue, which must be left to the jury or the court trying the case without a jury for determination.”
3 later decisions 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.