Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pierce (1994), Commonwealth v. Marinelli (1997)
54 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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. Turner · Reed v. Universal C.I.T. Credit Corp. · Commonwealth v. Martin
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is within the sound discretion of the trial court. In exercising its discretion, the trial court- should consider the seriousness 'of the violation, its impact on the testimony of the witness, and its'probable impact on the outcome .of the trial. We will disturb the-trial court’s exercise of its discretion only if there is no reasonable ground for .the action taken.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.