Commonwealth v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Flebotte (1994), Commonwealth v. Bianco (1983)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 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 Santoni v. United States · Ham v. South Carolina · Ristaino v. Ross · National Labor Relations Board v. Hendricks County Rural Electric Membership Corp. · Ross v. Massachusetts
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considerations which may cause a decision ... to be made in whole or in part upon issues extraneous to the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“community attitudes ... or possible preconceived opinions toward the credibility of certain classes of persons ... the court shall ... examine the juror specifically with respect to such considerations, attitudes, exposure, opinions or any other matters”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it appears that, as a result of ... community attitudes, ... or possible preconceived opinions toward the credibility of certain classes of persons, the juror may not stand indifferent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. Fair
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.