Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Williams (1996), Commonwealth v. LeFave (1999)
5 federal appellate · 103 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 Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald · Commonwealth v. Stewart
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reversal for abuse of discretion is particularly rare where the judge acting on the motion was also the trial judge.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a substantial risk that the jury would have reached a different conclusion had the evidence been admitted at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unbelievability of the defendant's account”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardy v. Maloney
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.