Commonwealth v. Wanis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2018
22 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Commonwealth v. Tucceri · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. St. Germain · Commonwealth v. Daye
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 14 (a) (1) [ (A) (iii) ] of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure, requires, among other things, that, on motion, the prosecution must disclose any facts of an exculpatory nature within the possession, custody, or control of the prosecutor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A defendant's right of access to information gathered by an internal affairs division does not turn on whether the investigatory materials are or are not subject to * disclosure as public records”
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.