Commonwealth v. Contos’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Balicki (2002), Commonwealth v. Williams (2010)
32 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Davis v. United States · Estelle v. Smith · Anchors v. United States · In re Disbarment of Puglia
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leave to the judge the responsibility of determining the weight and credibility to be given oral testimony presented at the motion hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“However, we review independently the motion judge's application of constitutional principles to the facts found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we accept the [motion] judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error.”
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.