Riner v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
217
cited by 217 later decisions
2
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 212 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Remmer v. United States · Higginbotham 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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We also accord the Commonwealth the benefit of all inferences fairly deducible from the evidence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hasan v. Com. · Baldwin v. Com.“in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hasan v. Com. · Smallwood v. Com.“as we must since it was the prevailing party in the trial court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.