Commonwealth v. DiMonte’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dwyer (2006), Commonwealth v. Anderson (2012)
50 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 135 Ill. 2d 423 - People v. Nevitt · Commonwealth v. McLaughlin · Commonwealth v. Sellon · Commonwealth v. Bonomi · State v. Boppre
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause a writing is more suspect as a spontaneous exclamation than is an oral statement, the circumstances of the writing would have to include indicia of reliability even more persuasive than those required for an oral statement before we could conclude that the writing qualified as a spontaneous exclamation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“relates directly and mainly to the treatment and medical history of the patient ... even though incidentally the facts recorded may have some bearing on the question of liability”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fact-specific references to the reported cause of [a patient's] injuries are part of her medical history and are relevant to treatment.”
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.