Commonwealth v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wilson (1998), Commonwealth v. Dwyer (2006)
2 district · 97 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 · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Holland v. United States
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all of [the] items [were] durable, of continuing utility to the defendants, and it was reasonable to expect that they would be kept at home, particularly as they are not inherently incriminating to possess.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only where the circumstances of the case and the nature of the codefendant's statement so obviously implicate the defendant in the crime itself as virtually to constitute direct incrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would not keep at home an incriminating handgun which could be readily identified as the murder weapon through ballistics tests.”
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.