Commonwealth v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 299 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 310 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tucceri (1992), Commonwealth v. LeFave (1999)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 299 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. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Commonwealth v. De Christoforo · Commonwealth v. Ellison · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 310 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only to determine whether there has been a significant error of law or other abuse of discretion.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant seeking a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence must establish both that the evidence is newly discovered and that it casts real doubt on the justice of the conviction.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“may grant a new trial at any time if it appears that justice may not have been done.”
8 later decisions 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.