Commonwealth v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mello (1995), Commonwealth v. King (2005)
2 district · 91 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oregon v. Kennedy · Commonwealth v. Saferian · 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the degree the recitation of the evidence was inflammatory, that was inherent in the odious ... nature of the crime[ ] committed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“improvident or not conducive to justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“some indication that the tone [and] manner ... of the now challenged aspects of the prosecutor's argument were not unfairly prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.