Commonwealth v. Ianello’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Amirault (1989), Commonwealth v. Woods (1995)
59 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 Simon v. Solomon · United States v. Azure · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · State v. Lindsey · Commonwealth v. Seese
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think there is little doubt that Saviag-no’s comments relating to the credibility of ‘most’ sexual assault victims would be taken by the jury as Saviagno’s endorsement of Paul’s credibility. As we stated in Commonwealth v. Ianello, supra, 401 Mass, at 202, 515 N.E.2d 1181 , ‘[wjhile the proposed testimony fell short of rendering an opinion on the credibility of the specific [witness] before the court, we see little difference in the final result. It would be unrealistic to allow this type of ... testimony and then expect the jurors to ignore it when evaluating the credibility of the complaining [witness].’ ” Id. at 504, 567 N.E.2d at 1214 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller
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.