Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Santiago (1997), Commonwealth v. Fryar (1993)
6 federal appellate · 47 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Carnegie v. United States · Taylor v. Louisiana · Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Commonwealth v. Soares
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of peremptory challenges to exclude prospective jurors solely because of bias presumed to derive from their membership in discrete community groups is prohibited both by art. 12 [of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights], see [ Soares , 377 Mass. at 486 -488 , 387 N.E.2d 499 ], and the equal protection clause [of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution], see Batson v. Kentucky , 476 U.S. 79 , 84-88 [ 106 S.Ct. 1712 , 90 L.Ed.2d 69 ] (1986).”
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.