Commonwealth v. Mercado’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · District of Columbia v. Heller · Singleton v. Christ the Servant Evangelical Lutheran Church · Commonwealth v. Casale · Commonwealth v. Harrington
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we weigh the materiality of the witness's direct testimony and the degree of the restriction on cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has broad discretion to limit cross-examination of a witness.”
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.