Commonwealth v. Alphas’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

232

cited by 232 later decisions

states following

January 2023

most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 220 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 232 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Randolph (2002), Fortini v. Murphy (2001)

5 federal appellate · 220 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Stone v. Powell · Schlup v. Delo · McCleskey v. Zant

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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“'materially influence[ ]' the guilty verdict.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 65 - Commonwealth v. Sutherland · 95 Mass. App. Ct. 445 - Wahlstrom v. JPA IV Management Co., Inc.
“convince[] [the appellate court] that the error did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. COMMONWEALTH v. CLAUDIANO SANTANA. · 95 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 - Commonwealth v. Jordan
“might have been otherwise but for the error”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 406 - Commonwealth v. Mitchell · COMMONWEALTH v. SHAUN HARRISON.

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.