Commonwealth v. Scheffer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Bohannon · 22 Mass. App. Ct. 10 - Commonwealth v. Miranda · Commonwealth v. Bohannon
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“might loom less large in a case where there was anatomical or percipient witness evidence [from other than the purported victim] that made the government case of sexual abuse overwhelming”
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.