Commonwealth v. Mello’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Azar (2002), Commonwealth v. Vinnie (1998)
2 district · 167 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 United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Dennis v. Dennis · Anthony v. United States · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the judge's remarks were neither intemperate nor critical of the attorneys, there was no danger that the judge exhibited to the jury a bias against the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and art. 12 of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution guarantee the right to be tried by an impartial jury, there is no Federal or State constitutional right to exercise peremptory challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“accept[ ] the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error, give[ ] substantial deference to the judge's ultimate findings and conclusions of law, but independently review[ ] the correctness of the judge's application of constitutional principles to the facts found.”
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.