Commonwealth v. Rolon’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Dagley (2004)
36 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 Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Anthony v. United States · Infelice v. United States · United States v. Testan · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rdinarily, questions concerning an agreement's requirement that a cooperating witness give 'truthful' testimony should be reserved for redirect examination after cross-examination has attacked the witness's credibility based on the . . . agreement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not improper vouching for the prosecutor to point to reasons why a witness's testimony, or portions of a witness's testimony, should logically be believed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“absolute prohibition that prevents any and all direct examination reference to the agreement's terms concerning 'truthful' testimony”
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.