Commonwealth v. Drew’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 411 - People v. Tenney (2002), State v. LaGrand (1987)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 86 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 Bruton v. United States · Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Dutton v. Evans
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether the declarant's statement has been sufficiently corroborated to merit its admission in evidence, the judge should not be stringent.... If the issue of sufficiency of the defendant's corroboration is close, the judge should favor admitting the statement. In most such instances, the good sense of the jury will correct any prejudicial impact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. LaGrand · Demby v. State““whether, in light of the other evidence already adduced or to be adduced, there is some reasonable likelihood that the statement could be true. Other factors the judge may consider are: the timing of the declaration and the relationship between the declarant and the witness ... the reliability and character of the declarant . . . whether the statement was made spontaneously . . . whether other people heard the out-of-court statement . . . whether there is any apparent motive for the declarant to misrepresent the matter, and whether and in what circumstances the statement was repeated ...” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.