Commonwealth v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2020
2 district · 16 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 Bruton v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Gray v. Maryland · Commonwealth v. Casale · Commonwealth v. Williams
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'only when linked with evidence introduced later at trial' ... generally does not offend the Sixth Amendment, so long as an adequate limiting instruction is given”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]vidence of a prior agreement between Brown and the others is not required because Brown's continued firing after being joined by others supports the inference that . . . [they] shared the intent to aid each other”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Maloney“and the other shooters shared the intent to aid each other and to engage in a shooting spree”
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.