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Commonwealth v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

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

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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. “(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
  2. “[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.