Commonwealth v. Botelho’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 district · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Manson v. Brathwaite (1977), Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (1979)
4 district · 145 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 United States v. Wade · Mapp v. Ohio · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proffered identification has a source independent of the suggestive confrontation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This has been understood to refer to the [identification] episode itself; it does not extend to a consideration of the witness's entire connection with the case to determine whether the confrontation, although set up in such a way as to be unnecessarily suggestive, was nevertheless reliable, and therefore usable . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“peculiarly riddled with innumerable dangers and variable factors which might seriously, even crucially, derogate from a fair trial.”
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.