Commonwealth v. Guy’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
34 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · Negron v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Rodriguez v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the defendant raised the issue of credibility of the three eyewitnesses' testimony, it was not improper for the prosecutor to comment on the consistency of their accounts; he did not vouch for their credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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“[t]here is no requirement that a judge provide an outline of the defendant's defenses.”
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.