Hodges v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Marquez (2009), Magruder v. Com. (2008)
30 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 Crawford v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Davis v. Washington · White v. Illinois
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Relevance exists when the evidence has a logical tendency, however slight, to prove a fact at issue in a case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. McMillan v. Com.“`Evidence is relevant if it tends to prove or disprove, or is pertinent to, matters in issue.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. McMillan v. Com.“as proof of the veracity of its contents”
1 later decision 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.