Commonwealth v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2019
15 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 Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Hoffer · Commonwealth v. De Christoforo · Commonwealth v. Underwood · Commonwealth v. Smith
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he cannot now complain of its prejudicial effect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While we have cautioned the Commonwealth to be wary of deciding to have an essential witness sit at the counsel table, we also have determined the necessity of reserving the determination of the need for such a seating arrangement to the discretion of the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he defendant cannot rest upon a bare * allegation that this police officer had a 'cloak of credibility' which was accentuated by his presence at counsel table as a sufficient basis to overturn [the defendant's] convictions.”
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.