Com. v. Wynn’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on O'Dell v. Commonwealth · Coe v. Commonwealth · Beaver v. Commonwealth · John v. Wong Shik Im · Teleguz v. Com.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he facts, circumstances or data relied upon by such witness in forming an opinion or drawing inferences, if of a type normally relied upon by others in the particular field of expertise in forming opinions and drawing inferences, need not be admissible in evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, `[a] trial court has no discretion to admit clearly inadmissible evidence because admissibility of evidence depends not upon the discretion of the court but upon sound legal principles.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lawrence v. Com. · Boyce v. Com.“a litigant, nevertheless, should not be required to contend with [the truth of details of] such hearsay information because the trier of fact cannot observe the demeanor of the speaker and the statements cannot be tested by cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawrence v. Com.
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.