Commonwealth v. Garrey’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Gutierrez v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (2002), Commonwealth v. Maldonado (2003)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 50 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Powers v. Ohio · Romano v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party seeks a mistrial in response to the jury's exposure to inadmissible evidence, the judge may rely on curative instructions to correct any error and to remedy any prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“defendant's relevant state of mind ... was his state of mind at the time of the offense, not one and one-half hours later, when he was in police custody”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As long as the judge's instructions are prompt and the jury do not again hear the inadmissible evidence ... a mistrial is unnecessary.”
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.