Commonwealth v. Ridge’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
2
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Anthony v. United States · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Kozec
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“challenge the adequacy of a police investigation and may use information concerning third-party culprits to question whether the police took reasonable steps to investigate the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for some other purpose ... such as to show a common scheme, pattern of operation, absence of accident or mistake, identity, intent, or motive”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The 'decision whether to allow leading questions [is] left for the most part to the wisdom and discretion of the trial judge.'”
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.