Commonwealth v. Delacruz’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2012
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harris v. McRae · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Brown v. State · Sherrod v. United States · 43 Md. App. 109 - Bing Fa Yuen v. State
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Established rules govern the permissible boundaries of a prosecutor’s closing argument. ‘[A] prosecutor should not refer to the defendant’s failure to testify, misstate the evidence or refer to facts not in evidence, inteqect personal belief in the defendant’s guilt, play on racial, ethnic, or religious prejudice or on the jury’s sympathy or emotions 9 99”
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.