Commonwealth v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dwyer (2006), State v. Green (2002)
2 district · 67 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 Roe v. Wade · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Whalen v. Roe · Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · Morris v. Gressette
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““demonstrate)] a good faith, specific, and reasonable basis for believing that the records will contain exculpatory evidence which is relevant and material to the issue of the defendant’s guilt. . . . By ‘material evidence’ we mean evidence which is not only likely to meet criteria of admissibility, but which also tends to create a reasonable doubt that might not otherwise exist.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'tends to create a reasonable doubt that might not otherwise exist.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A sexual assault counsellor shall not disclose such confidential communication, without the prior written consent of the victim .... Such confidential communications shall not be subject to discovery and shall be inadmissible in any criminal or civil proceeding without the prior written consent of the victim to whom the report, record, working paper or memorandum relates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Vega
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.