Commonwealth v. Raposa’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Richardson v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Williams v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections · McGinnis v. Hadix
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where credibility is at issue, it is certainly proper for counsel to argue from the evidence why a witness should be believed. ... [I]n context the prosecutor's comment here clearly constituted an invitation to the jury to think back to the witness's demeanor on the stand, along with a suggestion that her demeanor supported the credibility of her statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in an attempt to divert [police] attention from himself and the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“during the pendency of the cooperative effort”
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.