Commonwealth v. Keevan’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Raymond (1997), Commonwealth v. Torres (1995)
2 district · 74 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Pointer v. Texas · Richardson v. Marsh · Rideout 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] specific unanimity instruction indicates to the jury that they must be unanimous as to which specific act constitutes the offense charged,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Hearsay, once admitted, may be weighed with the other evidence, and given any evidentiary value which it may possess”
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.