Commonwealth v. Pares-Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Santana (1995), Commonwealth v. Garcia (1991)
2 district · 36 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Doucette · Commonwealth v. McLeod
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e may consider issues on appeal not raised at trial [or, in this case, even on appeal], but our power to do so is rarely exercised, and is exercised only in response to a serious and obvious error creating a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
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.