Commonwealth v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Flebotte (1994), Commonwealth v. Lao (2005)
56 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Griffith v. Kentucky · Rosales-Lopez v. United States · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Ham v. South Carolina
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To determine whether a juror stands indifferent in the case ... [with respect to] preconceived opinions toward the credibility of certain classes of persons ... the court shall, or the parties or their attorneys may, with the permission and under the direction of the court, examine the juror specifically with respect to such considerations, attitudes, exposure, [and] opinions...."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““If, at any time after the final submission of the case by the court to the jury and before the jury has agreed on a verdict, a juror dies, or becomes ill, or is unable to perform his duty for any other good cause shown to the court, the court may order him to be discharged . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[F]ederal trial courts must make [an individualized] inquiry when requested by a defendant accused of a violent crime and where the defendant and the victim are members of different racial or ethnic groups”
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.