Commonwealth v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably McCone v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1984), Foley v. Lowell Sun Publishing Co. (1989)
6 federal appellate · 49 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 Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Abney v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince the defendant was able to establish bias without the proffered evidence, ... [t]he judge properly limited the scope of the evidence after adequate exposure on the issue of bias, and he gave proper attention to `the important policies underlying the rape-shield statute' as well as the confrontation clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At trial, the judge permitted the defendant to introduce [some] evidence of hostility between the complainant and the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where evidence of bias is available by other means,”
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.