Commonwealth v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2021
20 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 Anthony v. United States · Commonwealth v. Tavares · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Canavan's Case · Commonwealth v. Gunter
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge has broad discretion regarding the admission of expert testimony, and we review that decision only for abuse of discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“trial judge, who has observed the evidence and the jury firsthand and can tailor supplemental instructions accordingly,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A judge need not use any particular words in instructing the jury as long as the legal concepts are properly described”
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.