Commonwealth v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
7 federal appellate · 10 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 Pointer v. Texas · United States v. Nobles · Alford v. United States · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona · Delta Airlines, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“material new matter which was brought out for the first time on redirect was not [Shanahan's] second statement, but was [her] upset state of mind when she gave her first statement, brought out to reduce that statement's impact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Brien v. Dubois“sought to explain the circumstances surrounding the making of a statement which had been used to impeach the witness on cross-examination,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Brien v. Dubois“not brought out at any point on direct, cross, or redirect examination”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Brien v. Dubois
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.