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Commonwealth v. Bonds’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

44
cited by 44 later decisions
2
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

44 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Linton (2010), Commonwealth v. Nesbitt (2008)

44 state decisions

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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 Commonwealth v. Kozec · 155 Ill. 2d 422 - People v. Peeples · Connor v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Roberts · Maillet v. ATF-Davidson Co.

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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We have consistently interpreted [rule 22 ] to preserve appellate rights only when an objection is made in a form or context that reveals the objection's basis”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he weighing of the prejudicial effect and probative value of evidence is [also] within the sound discretion of the trial judge, the exercise of which we will not overturn unless we find palpable error.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “Rather than an objection to the testimony as impermissible evidence of character or propensity, the defendant's standing objection was based on relevancy alone”
    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.