Commonwealth v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Drumgold (1996), Commonwealth v. Lewin (1989)
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 United States v. Morrison · Figueroa v. United States · Mabry v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Cinelli · State v. Sugar
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interest in prosecuting those accused of crime and bringing the guilty to justice,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“misconduct was so pervasive as to preclude any confident assumption that proceedings at a new trial would be free of the taint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It may be that, in the absence of prejudice or substantial threat of prejudice, an indictment should never be dismissed.”
1 later decision 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.