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Commonwealth v. Robichaud’s Empirical Analysis

1970

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
4
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Connor (1984), Commonwealth v. Martino (1992)

42 state decisions

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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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Lewis v. United States · Commonwealth v. Millen · People v. Medcoff

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is frequently to the defendant's advantage to communicate orally with his counsel ... since he may have information which may aid his counsel in examining [individuals].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “crucial as a safeguard of his right to an impartial jury,”
    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.