Commonwealth v. Nordstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Latimore (1979), Commonwealth v. Bradshaw (1982)
65 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. De Christoforo · Commonwealth v. Kendrick · Commonwealth v. Baker · Commonwealth v. McCauley · Commonwealth v. Ransom
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ounsel has the right to argue inferences from the evidence favorable to his case, and the precise form should not control unless it tends to lead the jury to an improper inference not from the evidence but from the apparent personal knowledge of the attorney.”
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.