Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District Commonwealth v. Roberio (2015), Commonwealth v. Alvarez (1992)
28 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 Ross v. Moffitt · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Curnin · Commonwealth v. Moore · Commonwealth v. Conceicao
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no constitutional right to State funding to support investigations in anticipation of such a motion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.