Commonwealth v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
101
cited by 101 later decisions
3
states following
September 2022
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 95 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Francis v. Franklin
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not whether, in a trial that occurred without the error, a guilty verdict would surely have been rendered, but whether the guilty verdict actually rendered in this trial was surely unattributable to the error”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'overwhelming,' " in the sense that it is 'so powerful as to "nullify any effect”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The Supreme Judicial Court] is the highest appellate authority in the Commonwealth, and [its] decisions on all questions of law are conclusive on all Massachusetts trial courts and the Appeals Court.”
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.