Commonwealth v. Cintron’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Swafford (2004), Commonwealth v. Morgan (2007)
34 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 · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Soares · Commonwealth v. Wright
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of a constitutional error, the granting of a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence rests in the sound discretion of the judge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he only foundation required for the testimony of lay witnesses is the ability to perceive, recall, and recount information within the witness's personal knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he jury may infer the requisite mental state from the defendant's knowledge of the circumstances and subsequent participation in the offense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gomes v. Silva
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.