Commonwealth v. Schand’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Acevedo (2006), Commonwealth v. Degro (2000)
4 district · 55 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · United States v. Cronic · Dennis v. Dennis
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the final arbiter of matters of credibility”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“correctly stated the relevant principles and essentially cautioned the jury to be sure of the strength and logic of any inferences they drew.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Reversal for abuse of discretion is particularly rare where the judge acting on the motion was also the trial judge.”
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.