Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Parren v. State (1987), Commonwealth v. Campbell (1979)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 111 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 Faretta v. California · Ungar v. Sarafite · Murphy v. Florida · Marshall v. United States · Gotthelf v. Commissioner
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a judge determines that the jury may have been exposed during the course of trial to material that 'goes beyond the record and raises a serious question of possible prejudice,' he [or she] should conduct a voir dire of jurors to ascertain the extent of their exposure to the extraneous material and to assess its prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there must be individual questioning of that juror ... to determine the extent of the juror's exposure to the material and its effects on the juror's ability to render an impartial verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rejects any suggestion that every defendant has an absolute right at the moment trial is to begin to retract his decision to represent himself”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gallegos
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.