Commonwealth v. Hynes’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
June 2009
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Fidler · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Conceicao
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of sexual abuse by a third party is generally excluded under the rape-shield statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Parks
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.