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Commonwealth v. Stuckich’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

75
cited by 75 later decisions
1
states following
September 2022
most recently cited

75 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Vick (2009), Commonwealth v. Barbosa (2010)

75 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. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Toney · United States v. Grubbs · Commonwealth v. King

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

  1. “brought resources to bear on this incident creates the imprimatur of official belief in the complainant”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Consciousness of guilt instructions are permissible when there is an 'inference of guilt that may be drawn from evidence of flight, concealment, or similar acts.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “has no relevance to whether the defendant in fact committed the acts charged,”
    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.