Commonwealth v. LaVelle’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably State v. Hogan (1996), Commonwealth v. Vasquez (2010)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 86 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 Giglio v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. v. McJunkin Corp. · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant bears a heavy burden to show impairment of the grand jury proceeding.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““We have applied this exception in only one case, Commonwealth v. Bohannon , where we allowed evidence of prior false accusations of rape to impeach a witness’s credibility. Specifically, the special circumstances included: ‘the witness was the victim in the case on trial, her consent was the central issue, she was the only Commonwealth witness on that issue, her testimony was inconsistent and confused, and there was a basis in independent third-party records for concluding that the prior accusations of the same type of crime had been made and were false.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here can be no reversible error in excluding collateral matters when the exclusion could not have resulted in prejudice to the defendant,”
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.