Commonwealth v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Adjutant (2005), Commonwealth v. Pillai (2005)
34 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 353 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Roberts v. Florida · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Helfant
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.
“We reject the defendant's request to alter the settled law concerning the admission of character evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence of a defendant's general reputation in his community or at his workplace is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the prejudice from joinder was 'so compelling that it prevented him from obtaining a fair trial'”
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.