Commonwealth v. Roberio’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kolenovic (2015), Commonwealth v. Pytou Heang (2011)
2 district · 27 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. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. McHoul · Commonwealth v. Matchett
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ailure to investigate an insanity defense [falls] below the level of competence demanded of attorneys, if facts known to, or accessible to, trial counsel raised a reasonable doubt as to the defendant's mental condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A jury that believed the defendant's expert likely would have been influenced to return a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that a new trial was not needed because, in his view, the psychologist [Dr. Spiers] was not credible”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rosado v. Allen
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.