Commonwealth v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Duquette · Ciummei v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. LaCorte · Leone v. Doran · Commonwealth v. Pavao
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“usually takes the form of testimony of a qualified witness either (1) that the thing is what its proponent represents it to be, or (2) that circumstances exist which imply that the thing is what its proponent represents it to be.”
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.