Commonwealth v. Montez’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Barbosa (2010), Commonwealth v. Nardi (2008)
42 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. Saferian · Western Farm Credit Bank v. Fobian · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Satterfield
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, evidence of a defendant's prior misconduct may not be admitted to show bad character or propensity to commit the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prove the identity of the person who committed the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[J]urors are presumed to follow a judge's instructions.”
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.