Commonwealth v. Arrington’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Spence v. Educational Credit Management Corp. · Commonwealth v. Amirault · Commonwealth v. Gonsalves
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Actual cross-examination at the prior [proceeding] is not required, but the party against whom the testimony is now offered must have had an adequate opportunity to exercise the right to cross-examine if desired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“although the defendant had a similar motivation for cross-examining [the declarant] at the [prior] hearing, he lacked a reasonable opportunity to conduct that cross-examination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defense counsel did not have a reasonable opportunity at the [prior] hearing to cross-examine”
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.