Commonwealth v. Degro’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
97
cited by 97 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
4 district · 93 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Young · Harris v. New York · Commonwealth v. Latimore · McGinnis v. Hadix
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It can reasonably be inferred that the defendant, after listening to the testimony of the Commonwealth witnesses, realized that the jury would not hear [her] version of the events unless [she] placed it before them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the fact that the defendant did not object to the statements at trial as some indication that ... the now challenged aspects of the prosecutor's argument were not unfairly prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“tell the jury something of the person whose life [has] been lost in order to humanize the proceedings.”
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.