Roach v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Commonwealth v. Benham · Winstead 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“received a fundamentally fair trial with any [other] errors being so minor that even their cumulative effect does not demand reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Commonwealth
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.