Commonwealth v. McDonough’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Amirault (1989), Commonwealth v. Wright (2014)
40 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 Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · United States v. Testan · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Mahnke
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence based on a chain of statements is admissible only if each out-of-court assertion falls within an exception to the hearsay rule.”
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.