Commonwealth v. Leahy’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. McCoy (2010), Commonwealth v. Clarke (2012)
46 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Irvin v. Dowd · Michigan v. Mosley · Murphy v. Florida · Patton v. Yount
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine whether jurors [are able to] set aside their own opinions, weigh the evidence (excluding matters not properly before them), and follow the instructions of the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ward“necessity, extent, and character of supplemental instructions in response to a jury request are matters within a trial judge's discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here is no support in this record that additional challenges were required in order to obtain an impartial jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ward
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.