Commonwealth v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tavares (1982), Commonwealth v. Garcia (1980)
29 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 Commonwealth v. Preece · Commonwealth v. Galvin · Jaquith v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Doherty · Commonwealth v. Haywood
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That practice has been referred to in Commonwealth v. Lee, 324 Mass. 714, 720 , 88 N.E.2d 713 , as a `humane practice,' giving the defendant two chances: first before the presiding judge who may decide to exclude the statements; and then before the jury who may disregard them. If the judge excludes them, the particular testimony is never heard by the jury; if the judge determines that they are competent, the jury may nevertheless disregard them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bridges
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.