Commonwealth v. Esteves’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2022
12 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. Flebotte · McGinnis v. Hadix · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi · Commonwealth v. Bishop · Commonwealth v. Vinnie
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not know and will not guess whether the jury accepted [the Commonwealth's testimony or the defendant's] denial[s] as true. The recognition that the improperly admitted [evidence] could have had a significant impact on the jury's evaluation of the . . . central issues of the case . . . is sufficient for us to conclude that the error was prejudicial and the defendant is entitled to a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.