Commonwealth v. Dinkins’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Melka Marine, Inc. v. United States · Commonwealth v. Willie · Commonwealth v. Olszewski · Commonwealth v. Neal · Commonwealth v. Coonan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not enough for a defendant merely to argue ... that, with access to the evidence, his expert 'could have made potentially exculpatory findings.' ... '[C]ould have' is merely an introduction to speculation and is not a substitute for 'concrete evidence'”
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.