Commonwealth v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2018
17 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 Crawford v. Washington · Sandstrom v. Montana · Douglas v. Alabama · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leading questions essentially permitted the Commonwealth to place its entire case before the jury in the form of an impermissible interrogation without competent testimony by a witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a witness must swear or affirm, or the witness may not testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“version of the events without competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ouk
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.