Commonwealth v. Sena’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Moore · Breese v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. LaCava
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That a subsequent [proceeding] involves additional evidence introduced against the defendant does not mean that the opportunity for cross-examination at an earlier [proceeding] is inadequate to satisfy the confrontation clause.”
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.