Commonwealth v. Chatman’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Drope v. Missouri · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. Stewart
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the appeal from the denial of a motion for a new trial is considered with the direct appeal from a conviction of a capital crime, we review the denial of that motion to determine if the judge committed an abuse of discretion or other error of law and, if so, whether such error created a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n evidentiary hearing is required only where a 'substantial issue' has been raised.”
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.