Commonwealth v. Caillot’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pytou Heang (2011), Commonwealth v. Sylvia (2010)
21 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Crawford v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Griffith v. Kentucky · Anthony v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prosecutor engages in improper vouching if he expresses a personal belief in the credibility of a witness, or indicates that he . . . has knowledge independent of the evidence before the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The so-called Brady obligation is one of disclosure; it imposes no obligation on the prosecution to gather evidence or conduct additional investigation”
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.