Commonwealth v. Lo’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Morgan (2007), Commonwealth v. Wolinski (2000)
2 district · 24 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 Shieh v. State Bar · Commonwealth v. Grace · Cuevas-Segarra v. Contreras · Commonwealth v. Toney · Commonwealth v. Bianco
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence that tends merely to impeach the credibility of a witness will not ordinarily be the basis of a new trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“used to assess the impact of newly discovered evidence, that is, 'whether there is a substantial risk that the jury would have reached a different conclusion if the evidence had been admitted at trial.'”
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.