Commonwealth v. Toolan’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2021
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Doyle v. Ohio · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Patton v. Yount
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“many prospective jurors knew the victim, her family, or witnesses, [and] the influence of mass media coverage overlapped with, and was reinforced by, informal interactions and conversations”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Mack“in the totality of the circumstances, pretrial publicity deprived [the defendant] of his right to a fair and impartial jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Mack“[p]retrial publicity -- even pervasive, adverse publicity -- does not inevitably lead to an unfair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Mack
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.