Commonwealth v. Nieves’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Randolph (2002), Commonwealth v. Watson (2000)
42 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 Anthony v. United States · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Tavares · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Commonwealth v. Mello
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defense did not focus on involuntariness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the issue of voluntariness was not raised with sufficient point to require an express admonition to the jury by the Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless it is manifestly unjust, or unless the trial was infected with prejudicial constitutional error.”
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.