Commonwealth v. Azar’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Randolph (2002), Commonwealth v. Acevedo (2006)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 129 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 Kansas v. Colorado · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Grey · Commonwealth v. Amirault
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The substantial risk standard requires us to determine 'if we have a serious doubt whether the result of the trial might have been different had the error not been made.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e consider the strength of the Commonwealth's case, the nature of the error, the significance of the error in the context of the trial, and the possibility that the absence of an objection was the result of a reasonable tactical decision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a new trial is unnecessary where the presence of malice, as it is correctly understood, can be 'ineluctably inferred' from the evidence.”
3 later decisions 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.