Commonwealth v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Los Angeles v. Department of Transportation · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. Bowden · State v. Harvey
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the presentation of the false or deceptive evidence probably influenced the grand jury's determination to hand up an indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally, a trial judge is accorded 'substantial discretion in deciding whether evidence is relevant'”
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.