Commonwealth v. Marrero’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Alphas (1999), Commonwealth v. Simpson (2001)
46 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. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Hoffer · Commonwealth v. Chalifoux · Commonwealth v. Salemme · Commonwealth v. Cordle
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In these circumstances, it was unavoidable that evidence of the defendant's drug business and his interactions with his customers would be admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It also may be used where evidence of the prior bad acts is inextricably intertwined with the description of events ... of the killing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the killing could have appeared to the jury as an * essentially inexplicable act of violence.”
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.