Commonwealth v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Raymond (1997)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Brown v. United States · Schad v. Arizona
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trial judges must take care to avoid exposing the jury unnecessarily to inflammatory material that might inflame the jurors' emotions and possibly deprive the defendant of an impartial jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“are not rendered inadmissible solely because they are gruesome or may have an inflammatory effect on the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It is beyond dispute that the jury verdict in a criminal trial ... must be unanimous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.