Commonwealth v. Marker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1988
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Commonwealth v. Hess · Hack v. Hack · Commonwealth v. Wilkes
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Res gestae statements lack that deliberate quality. Moreover, as respects family harmony, third party evidence of a spouse’s spontaneous excited on-the-spot utterance is not nearly as offensive or disturbing to domestic peace as is confronting the spouse on trial with the other spouse’s direct testimony from the stand which was the original target of the prohibition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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