Commonwealth v. Dagraca’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Vasquez (2010), Commonwealth v. Tyree (2010)
57 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 · Dickerson v. United States · Milton v. Wainwright · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Anthony v. United States
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.
“"[1] the importance of the evidence in the prosecution's case; [2] the relationship between the evidence and the premise of the defense; [3] who introduced the issue at trial; [4] the * frequency of the reference; [5] whether the erroneously admitted evidence was merely cumulative of properly admitted evidence; [6] the availability or effect of curative instructions; and [7] the weight or quantum of evidence of guilt."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e analyze the case to see whether the error might have had an effect on the [judge] or contributed to the [finding], and whether the Commonwealth's evidence was ' "merely cumulative”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“of evidence properly before the jury,' ... or was overwhelming without the erroneously admitted evidence.”
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.