Commonwealth v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Friedman (2000), 23 Mass. App. Ct. 384 - Commonwealth v. Hennessey (1987)
29 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 Patton v. United States · Ciummei v. Commonwealth · 16 Mass. App. Ct. 199 - Commonwealth v. Schofield
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he colloquy ... is only evidence of whether a defendant's waiver of the right to trial by jury was voluntary and intelligent. It is not an independent constitutionally required prerequisite to a valid waiver of the right to a jury trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In the instant case there is adequate support for the judge's decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hutton v. State
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.