Commonwealth v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. King (2005), Commonwealth v. Woodward (1998)
32 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 Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Sherry · Kuklis v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Sanchez · Commonwealth v. Thomas
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before any [evidence of prior sexual abuse] is admitted, the judge should determine both that the past abuse is factually similar to the abuse in the case on trial and that the child victim displays knowledge of sexual matters beyond his or her years”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Indecent assault and battery is a lesser included offense of rape of a child by force.... The difference between the two offenses is the element of penetration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“except for the aggravating factor of penetration in the rape charge that distinguishes the greater offense from the lesser offense”
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.