Commonwealth v. Nolan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2023
2 district · 19 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 Oregon v. Kennedy · Greening v. Moran · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Waite · Commonwealth v. Andrews
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although she testified on the stand to certain events of importance to the prosecutor's case, she confessed to a lack of recollection of other details. . . . A witness's inability to remember details of an event described in a statement can justify the discretionary admission of the statement if it otherwise meets the test for admissibility”
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.