Commonwealth v. Elberry’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011
3 federal appellate · 2 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. Toney · Commonwealth v. Person · 10 Mass. App. Ct. 190 - Commonwealth v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Feigenbaum · 26 Mass. App. Ct. 441 - Commonwealth v. Robinson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant, who was a witness in this case, was here during the testimony of other witnesses, but he’s got every right to be here,” and”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Did any of the witnesses have the opportunity to see exactly how every other witness testified in this case and then tailor their testimony to that evidence? Some of you are shaking your heads. One person did, one witness did, one witness saw every other person testify, the defendant (pointing).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walsh“out of bounds and should not have been made[,]” but the curative instruction, to which no party objected,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walsh
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.