Commonwealth v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
January 2023
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lawrence v. Texas · Bowers v. Hardwick · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Jaworski v. Kiernan · Commonwealth v. Randolph
Most-quoted passages
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“Without looking at the videos for itself, the court could not have fully assessed the potential prejudice to Loughry and weighed it against the evidence's probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We entrust questions of relevancy and prejudicial effect to the sound discretion of the trial judge, whose determinations we will not disturb except for palpable error”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he judge's failure to view the video prior to ruling that its probative value outweighed its prejudicial effect was an abuse of discretion.”
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.