Commonwealth v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Bowden · State v. Green · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
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 are not persuaded that ... including an instruction on good faith error in identification[ ] would have been 'likely to have influenced the jury's conclusion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the reliability of a positive eyewitness identification is an important issue at trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not ... convert this court into a second jury.”
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.