Commonwealth v. LeFave’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Randolph (2002), Commonwealth v. Azar (2002)
4 district · 113 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 Strickland v. Washington · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Frye v. United States · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Ramirez v. United States
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if we have a serious doubt whether the result of the trial might have been different had the error not been made.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[EJxpert testimony may not be considered newly discovered for purposes of a new trial motion simply because recent studies may lend more credibility to expert testimony that was or could have been presented at trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“would provide convicted defendants with a new trial whenever they could find a credible expert with new research results supporting claims that the defendant made or could have made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bonan
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.