Commonwealth v. Spear’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2019
19 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Barrett v. United States · Austin Products Co. v. Workers' Compensation Insurers Rating Association of Minnesota · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confrontation issue [was] waived [in Amirault ] where ... defense counsel participated in designing special seating configuration and specifically declined to challenge the arrangement on confrontation clause grounds”
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.