Commonwealth v. Dwyer’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Barbosa (2010), Commonwealth v. Clemente (2008)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Bruton v. United States · United States v. Nixon · Richardson v. Marsh · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Dennis 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'establish good cause, satisfied by showing "(1) that the documents are evidentiary and relevant; (2) that they are not otherwise procurable reasonably in advance of trial by exercise of due diligence; (3) that the party cannot properly prepare for trial without such production and inspection in advance of trial and that the failure to obtain such inspection may tend unreasonably to delay the trial; and (4) that the application is made in good faith and is not intended as a general 'fishing expedition.' " '”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“some evidence of uncharged conduct may be admissible to give the jury a view of the entire relationship between the defendant and the alleged victim,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of prior bad acts 'is not admissible to show a defendant's bad character or propensity to commit the charged crime”
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.