Commonwealth v. Beaudry’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Shanley (2010), Commonwealth v. Bizanowicz (2011)
2 district · 45 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 Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Grandison · Commonwealth v. Storey · Commonwealth v. Shelley
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considering the remarks in the context of the entire argument, the trial testimony, and the judge's instructions to the jury,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e are unable to say that we are assured that the improper remark had little or no effect on the jury's deliberations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“might loom less large in a case where there was anatomical or percipient witness evidence [from other than the purported victim] that made the government case of sexual abuse overwhelming”
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.