Commonwealth v. Olszewski’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Freiberg (1989), State v. Carpenter (2005)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 53 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Bates v. State Bar · United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner · Commonwealth v. Borodine · Commonwealth v. Willie
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.
“Weighing the culpability of the police against the materiality of the evidence and the potential prejudice to the defendant resulting from its destruction, I do not believe that dismissal of the indictment is required or warranted. As was true at the first trial, defense counsel will have full opportunity to describe the circumstances of the making and destruction of the first statement and to thoroughly cross-examine both Strong and the police officers with regard to it. I am also prepared, if requested to do so, to instruct the jury that they may draw inferences adverse to the prosecution’s case based on the destruction of the statement.”
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.