Commonwealth v. Lafferty’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2019
6 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 United States v. Dinitz · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Commonwealth v. Potter · Commonwealth v. Starks · Com. v. Hogan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the effect of the improper statements was prejudicial, it cannot automatically be concluded that they were made with that intent, particularly in light of the strength of the prosecution's case at the outset.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Byrd
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.