Commonwealth v. Robichaud’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
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
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.
“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“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.