Commonwealth v. Ortega’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zinser (2006), Commonwealth v. Dagraca (2006)
62 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 Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · City of Los Angeles v. Department of Transportation · 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Improper vouching occurs if 'an attorney expresses a personal belief in the credibility of a witness, or indicates that he or she has knowledge independent of the evidence before the jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence that the defendant had both knowledge of the contraband and the ability and intention to exercise dominion and control over it.”
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.