Commonwealth v. Pillai’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Walker (2011), Commonwealth v. Kolenovic (2015)
4 district · 53 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Anthony v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Hopkins v. Reeves
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o prevail on a claim of misjoinder, the defendant 'bears the burden of demonstrating that the offenses were unrelated, and that prejudice from joinder was so compelling that it prevented him from obtaining a fair trial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he decision whether to join offenses for trial is a matter left to the sound discretion of the judge . . . and will not be reversed unless there has been 'a clear abuse of discretion'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[o]nly "strategy and tactics which lawyers of ordinary training and skill in the criminal law would not consider competent' " are manifestly unreasonable.”
2 later decisions 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.