Commonwealth v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Illinois v. Fisher (2004), State v. Morales (1995)
2 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Arizona v. Youngblood · 53 Cal. 3d 771 - People v. Cooper · State v. Matafeo · Commonwealth v. Willie · Thorne v. Department of Public Safety
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the government loses potentially exculpatory evidence, the trial court must "balance the degree of culpability of the government, the materiality of the evidence, and the potential prejudice to the defendant in order to protect the defendant's constitutional due process right to a fair trial.... If the loss of the evidence threatened the defendant's right to a fair trial, the judge has discretion concerning the manner in which to protect the defendant's rights."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule under the due process provisions of the Massachusetts Constitution is stricter than that stated in the Youngblood opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reaves
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.