Commonwealth v. Kindell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2018
2 district · 7 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 Bruton v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton · Commonwealth v. Casale · Commonwealth v. Bianco
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prior consistent statement may, however, be admitted to support the testimony of a witness who has been impeached by a suggestion that his testimony is the product of bias or contrivance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he prior consistent statement must have been made before the motive to fabricate or act out of bias arose.”
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.