Commonwealth v. Amirault’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. LeFave (1999), Commonwealth v. Amirault (1989)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Smith v. Phillips · McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · Brown v. United States · Anthony 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as McDonough makes clear, the crucial inquiry is whether the juror's answer was honest; that is, whether the juror was aware that the answer was false”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Foad Afshar
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.