Commonwealth v. McGonigle’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably State v. Tolley (1976), Commonwealth v. Rios (1996)
40 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 Procunier v. Martinez · Commonwealth v. Allen · Commonwealth v. Groce · Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Turner
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled law that a mere accidental observation of a defendant in handcuffs outside a courtroom by a juror does not, without more, require the granting of a mistrial, created, not who created the risk. Thus, if there was error here, it did not prejudice Appellant. although a cautionary instruction by the trial court on the event will be appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Rios
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.