Commonwealth v. Beausoleil’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Moore v. McNamara (1986), Jones v. Trojak (1993)
64 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Bruton v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Krulewitch v. United States · Frye v. United States · Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does nothing to distinguish the true father from the perhaps millions of men who fall into this group.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No test tends to prove a fact it assumes. The HLA test, therefore, has no relevancy to the question, typically the one critical question in a paternity case, whether the defendant had intercourse with the mother at a time and in circumstances that would explain the conception of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rrk v. Sgp“the potential for confusing and misleading the factfinder is so great that the court should exclude it under its general power to exclude evidence which creates a substantial danger of prejudice, of confusing the issues, or misleading the factfinder.”
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.