Commonwealth v. Chipman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Williams (1996)
2 district · 64 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Commonwealth v. Latimore · United States v. Bailey · 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the conditions were sufficiently similar to make the observation [offered by the demonstration] of any value in aiding the jury to pass upon the issue submitted to them [is] primarily for the trial judge to determine as a matter of discretion. [The judge's] decision in this respect will not be interfered with unless plainly wrong.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No particular period of reflection is required for deliberate premeditation to be found. The law recognizes that a plan to murder may be formed within a few seconds”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A videotaped demonstration may be admitted in evidence provided it 'sufficiently resembles the actual event so as to be fair and informative.'”
2 later decisions 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.