Commonwealth v. Trowbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. King (2005), Commonwealth v. Drumgold (1996)
70 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 Kentucky v. Stincer · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Licata · Commonwealth v. Greenberg
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the witness has the general ability or capacity to observe, remember, and give expression to that which [he] ha[s] seen, heard, or experienced; and (2) whether [the witness] has understanding sufficient to comprehend the difference between truth and falsehood, the wickedness of the latter and the obligation and duty to tell the truth, and, in a general way, belief that failure to perform the obligation will result in punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]lthough expert testimony on the general behavioral characteristics of sexually abused children is permissible, an expert may not refer or compare the child to those general characteristics”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“testified that the symptoms and physical condition of the child were consistent with the type of nonviolent sexual abuse that the child alleged in this case”
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.