Velazquez v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
49
cited by 49 later decisions
4
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
49 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · Hardy v. Florida · State v. White · Webb v. Commonwealth · Johnson 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“causation of injuries in the context of an alleged sexual assault.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as an expert in the field of sexual assault diagnosis because such diagnosis constitutes the practice of medicine and [the SANE] is not a licensed physician.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question of causation of a human injury is a component part of a diagnosis,”
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.