Commonwealth v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Barbosa (2010), Commonwealth v. Berry (1995)
2 district · 39 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 Duren v. Missouri · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Bys · Commonwealth v. D'AGOSTINO
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the group alleged to be excluded is g, “distinctive” group in the community; (2) that the representation of this group in venires from which juries are selected is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and (3) that this un- derrepresentation is due to systematic exclusion of the group in the jury-selection process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the photographs possess evidential value on a material matter, they 'are not rendered inadmissible solely because they are gruesome or may have an inflammatory effect on the jury.'”
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.