Commonwealth v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2018
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Wellesley College v. Attorney General · Dale B. Menard v. John N. Mitchell and John Edgar Hoover · United States v. Schnitzer
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the preliminary hearing [held to determine whether a defendant made out a prima facie case in favor of sealing] was held some time after the underlying case has been disposed of, notice may be provided by means of an entry on the public docket sheets, as is normal procedure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In any criminal case wherein a nolle prosequi has been entered, or a dismissal has been entered by the court, except in cases in which an order of probation has been terminated, and it appears to the court that substantial justice would best be served, the court shall direct the clerk to seal the records of the proceedings in his files. The clerk shall forthwith notify the commissioner of probation and the probation officer of the courts in which the proceedings occurred or were initiated who shall likewise seal the records of the proceedings in their files.””
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.