Commonwealth v. Randolph’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zinser (2006), Commonwealth v. Acevedo (2006)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 165 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 Hankerson v. North Carolina · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Alphas
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serves a dual purpose: it protects society's interest in the finality of its judicial decisions ... and promotes judicial efficiency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a serious doubt whether the result of the trial might have been different had the [alleged] error not been made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re R.B. · Commonwealth v. Kelly“[e]rrors of this magnitude are extraordinary events and relief is seldom granted,”
2 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.