Commonwealth v. Moynihan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Moon (1980), Commonwealth v. Meehan (1979)
1 district · 50 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile there are obvious pitfalls in permitting [witnesses] to view photographs in each other's presence, the practice is not ipso facto invalid so as to preclude an identification made as a result thereof.”
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.