Commonwealth v. Melvin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Yesilciman (1990), Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago (2009)
4 district · 39 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 Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Bates v. State Bar · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n
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.