Commonwealth v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Campbell (1979), Commonwealth v. De Christoforo (1971)
35 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Commonwealth v. Sturtivant · People v. . Shilitano · Commonwealth v. Nassar
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]pon a motion for a new trial based on recantation by a material witness, the duty of the trial judge is to give grave consideration to the credibility of the witness's new testimony,”
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.