Commonwealth v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Commonwealth v. Rodriquez · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Connor
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court shall have the discretionary authority to dismiss a juror at any time in the best interests of justice.... The court shall have authority to excuse and discharge a juror participating in jury deliberations after a hearing only upon a finding of an emergency or other compelling reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the deliberations took several sharp turns, but the judge, with a responsive and steady hand, kept the jury on course by continually focusing them on their duties to deliberate fairly”
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.