Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Alford v. United States · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Gibson 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based on concerns about ... harassment, prejudice, confusion of the issues, the witness's safety, or interrogation that is repetitive or only marginally relevant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the import of the question was too attenuated to create a remote possibility of ... bias”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A lawyer shall not ... state or allude to any matter that the lawyer does not reasonably believe ... will not be supported by admissible evidence ...”
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.