Commonwealth v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
41
cited by 41 later decisions
4
states following
November 2022
most recently cited
41 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Spence v. Educational Credit Management Corp. · Commonwealth v. Adams
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a motion to suppress a photographic identification to succeed, the defendant must show by a preponderance of the evidence that, in light of the totality of the circumstances, the procedures employed were so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification as to deny the defendant due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where there is additional evidence to corroborate an eyewitness’s identification, a judge does not overstep the bounds of discretion in excluding expert testimony.”); Comm. v. Santoli, 424 Mass. 837 , 680 N.E.2d 1116, 1119 (1997) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there has been serious incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention of counsel -- behavior of counsel falling measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary fallible lawyer.”
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.