Commonwealth v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dwyer (2006), Commonwealth v. Scott (2014)
36 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley · McGinnis v. Hadix
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prosecutor's duty [to disclose exculpatory information] does not extend beyond information held by agents of the prosecution team.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] prosecutor has no duty to investigate every possible source of exculpatory information on behalf of the defendant[] and . . . his obligation to disclose exculpatory information is limited to that in the possession of the prosecutor or police”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the possession, custody, or control of the prosecutor.”
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.