Commonwealth v. Rosa’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wilson (1998), Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago (2009)
89 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Boyde v. California · Victor v. Nebraska · 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In considering whether a [jury] charge lowers the criminal standard of proof, we consider the charge, taken as a whole, and assess the possible impact of [an] alleged error on the deliberations of a reasonable juror, i.e., whether a reasonable juror could have used the instruction incorrectly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The jury in this case were quite discerning.... [T]hey ... distinguished between theories ... of murder. It is at best purely speculative to think that the jury were misled as to their responsibility to find proof beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When prejudice, including confusion of the jury, is possible, the judge must weigh the probative value of the evidence against such danger”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Bin
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.