Commonwealth v. Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Crayton (2014), Commonwealth v. Gomes (2015)
71 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 Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Lanigan
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An error is not prejudicial if it 'did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“The factors provided for the jury's consideration in assessing eyewitness testimony -- including the capacity and opportunity of the witness for observation, the timing of the identification, conditions at the scene, past contact between the witness and the defendant, and any failed or inconsistent identifications -- are applicable to assessing 'earwitness' testimony as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a voice identification may be considered by a jury as long as the witness expresses some basic familiarity with the voice he or she claims to identify”
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.