Commonwealth v. Cronk’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Montanez (1991), Commonwealth v. Martin (1998)
79 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 United States v. Morrison · Figueroa v. United States · McDonald v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Gibson 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial judge ... must rest a dismissal of criminal charges for failure of the prosecution to comply with discovery orders in a timely manner on findings that the delayed disclosure was due to deliberate and egregious action by the prosecutor or unintentional conduct resulting in irremediable harm to the defendant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]here the prosecutor fails to disclose evidence the defendant is entitled to receive and the defendant is prejudiced by the failure to disclose, a motion to dismiss should not be allowed absent a showing of irremediable harm to the defendant's opportunity to obtain a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“prosecutorial misconduct that is egregious, deliberate, and intentional, or that results in a violation of constitutional rights may give rise to presumptive prejudice ... and the 'drastic remedy' of dismissal of charges may become an appropriate remedy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.