Commonwealth v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Ex Parte Branch (1987), McCray v. New York (1983)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · Pointer v. United States · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Frazier v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where ... a witness is impeached solely by the contradictory testimony of other witnesses, prior consistent statements are generally not admissible. Wilson v. Jeffrey, 328 Mass. 192 , 102 N.E.2d 426 (1951). Leach & Liacos, [Massachusetts Evidence 131 (4th ed. 1967) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zinck
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.