Commonwealth v. LaCorte’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Simon v. Solomon (1982), Commonwealth v. Yesilciman (1990)
97 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. Kahaner · Ross v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Sandler · Borum v. United States · State v. Mayell
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“danger posed by a witness,... offering an opinion regarding a defendant's guilt '[where] the jury might forego independent analysis of the facts and bow too readily to the opinion of an expert or otherwise influential witness.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[P]roof of authenticity usually takes the form of testimony of a qualified witness either (1) that the thing is what its proponent represents it to be, or (2) that circumstances exist which imply that the thing is what its proponent represents it to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[W]hen fingerprints constitute the only identification evidence, most jurisdictions require the prosecution to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the fingerprints in fact were placed at the scene during the commission of the crime”
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.