Commonwealth v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Donahue (2000), Commonwealth v. Gaynor (2005)
6 district · 123 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 Griffith v. Kentucky · Victor v. Nebraska · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Figueroa 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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A prosecutor is entitled to argue forcefully ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A prosecutor is entitled to argue forcefully .... "[E]nthusiatic rhetoric, strong advocacy, and excusable hyperbole”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] certain measure of ... sophistication.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.