Commonwealth v. Lykus’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wright (2014), Commonwealth v. Clemente (2008)
31 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Tucceri · Commonwealth v. Martin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without defining the scope of the issue, the circumstances of this case fall well within the core of the principle under which the actions of one sovereign may be imputed to another. This is not a case in which the FBI had little or no involvement. This was, at the very least, a joint investigation by Federal and State authorities. No less than nineteen FBI agents testified before the jury at the defendant’s trial, and others were involved in the investigation. The heft of the Commonwealth’s case was provided by the FBI, and if ever an FBI failure to disclose exculpatory evidence should be imputed to the Commonwealth, this is that case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in dual sovereign situations, where a “motion [for specific exculpatory evidence] is allowed ... cooperation between State and Federal prosecutors is and should be common enough so that the burden of securing Federal cooperation should be placed on the State prosecutor rather than on the defendant.” Commonwealth v. Liebman, 379 Mass. 671, 675 , 400 N.E.2d 842 (1980), S.C., 388 Mass. 483 , 446 N.E.2d 714 (1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[ (i) ] the potential unfairness to the defendant; [ (ii) ] the defendant's lack of access to the evidence; [ (iii) ] the burden on the prosecutor of obtaining the evidence; and [ (iv) ] the degree of cooperation between State and Federal authorities, both in general and in the particular case.”
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.