Rankins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2015
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Davis v. Washington · State v. . Webb · Heard 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither Crawford nor Davis limited testimonial statements to those obtained by law enforcement or their agents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether it is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecutions.”
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.