Commonwealth v. Kater’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago (2009), Commonwealth v. Lao (2005)
71 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Lockhart v. Nelson · Granito v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) whether the defendant seasonably objected; (2) whether the error was limited to collateral issues or went to the heart of the case; (3) what specific or general instructions the judge gave the jury which might have mitigated the mistake; and (4) whether the error, in the circumstances, possibly made a difference in the jury's conclusions."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Kater's obstacle is that the issue of his prior similar crime was not extraneous. . . . Here, the issue of Kater's prior similar crime did not lie beyond the record. Evidence of the prior similar crime was fully relevant and probative on the issue of Kater's identity as the perpetrator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kater v. Maloney“provid[ing] that a trial judge must, for the purpose of determining whether a juror stands indifferent in a case, conduct an individual voir dire of each prospective juror if it appears that a substantial risk exists that an extraneous issue might affect the outcome of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kater v. Maloney
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.