Commonwealth v. Cowen’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2023
8 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. Boucher · Hill · Commonwealth v. Walsh · Miller
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The matter of how much weight is to be given a witness, particularly an expert witness, is a matter for the trier of fact . . . . See Hill, petitioner, 422 Mass. 147, 156 (1996). This is particularly true of experts in the medical field, who regularly are permitted to testify on the basis of examination of records and other materials with respect to an issue in dispute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any other evidence tending to show that such person is or is not a sexually dangerous person shall be admissible at the trial if such written information has been provided to opposing counsel reasonably in advance of trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The matter of how much weight is to be given a witness, particularly an expert witness, is a matter for the trier of fact, not an appellate court”
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.