Commonwealth v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2018
8 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. Bowden · Commonwealth v. West · Commonwealth v. Murchison · 5 Mass. App. Ct. 365 - Commonwealth v. Cote · Foster v. Worthing
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prior inconsistent statement is one that, either by what it says or by what it omits to say, affords some indication that the fact was different from the testimony of the witness whom it is sought to contradict. An omission from the earlier statement is inconsistent with a later statement of fact when it would have been natural to include the fact in the initial statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here, as here, a defendant voluntarily makes post-Miranda statements, and then testifies at trial, in order to expose inconsistencies and differences in testimony, a prosecutor may inquire into [and comment on] 'the omission[s] from a [defendant's] pretrial statement[s] where it would have been natural to include the omitted fact[s].'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[the] omission from the earlier statement is inconsistent with a later statement of fact”
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.