Weeks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Weeks v. Angelone (2000), Alvarado v. State (1995)
9 federal appellate · 58 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Florida v. Bostick · Michigan v. Mosley
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he hearsay rule does not operate to exclude evidence of a statement offered for the mere purpose of explaining the conduct of the person to whom it was made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question whether a defendant is guilty of a premeditated killing of the victim is usually a jury question. The intention to kill need not exist for any specified length of time prior to the actual killing; the design to loll may be formed only a moment before the fatal act is committed provided the accused had time to think and did intend to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon appellate review, we must give deference to the trial court's decision whether to exclude or retain a prospective juror because the trial court" sees and hears the juror;" accordingly, the trial court's decision will be disturbed only upon a showing of manifest error.”
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.