Commonwealth v. Ascolillo’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. James (1997), Commonwealth v. Long (1995)
49 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 · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Amazeen · Commonwealth v. Sherry
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here, as here, the judge who had the opportunity to observe the prospective juror, makes a determination that the juror is indifferent after exploring the grounds for a possible claim that the juror was not impartial, we cannot conclude, in the absence of any affirmative evidence to the contrary, that the judge abused his discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The defendant argues that [the judge's instruction concerning the victim's intoxication] was wholly inapplicable in this case and was not warranted by any view of the evidence. We disagree. The defendant's own testimony suggested that the victim may have been so intoxicated by drugs and alcohol as to be incapable of consenting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“wholly insensible so as to be unable [to] consent[]... .”
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.