Commonwealth v. Velasquez’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Rodgers (1977), Commonwealth v. Duncan (1977)
32 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 Commonwealth v. McGrogan · Commonwealth v. Ryhal · Commonwealth v. Velasquez · Commonwealth v. Clarkson · Commonwealth v. Lenousky
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any person has been examined as a witness, either for the Commonwealth or for the defense, in any criminal proceeding conducted in or before a court of record, and the defendant has been present and has had an opportunity to examine or cross-examine, if such witness afterwards die ... notes of his examination shall be competent evidence upon a subsequent trial of the same criminal issue ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in both proceedings.... This requirement is in accord with the common law rule that”
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.