Commonwealth v. Donahue’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Mole v. University of Massachusetts (2004), Commonwealth v. Crayton (2014)
2 district · 77 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 United States v. Ventresca · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Figueroa v. United States · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. Wright
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provide[s] a substantial basis for concluding that evidence connected to the crime will be found on the specified premises”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n affidavit must contain enough information for an issuing magistrate to determine that the items sought are related to the criminal activity under investigation, and that they reasonably may be expected to be located in the place to be searched at the time the search warrant issues.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We generally 'presume that a jury understand and follow limiting instructions, ... and that the application of such instructions ordinarily renders any potentially prejudicial evidence harmless.'”
2 later decisions 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.