Commonwealth v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2023
2 district · 18 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 Commonwealth v. Saferian · Goldberg v. Ellett · United States v. Marcus · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Flebotte
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). Therefore, the question is whether this error created a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice. Despite trial counsel's errors, her approach to the trial was consistent with the motion judge's determination that she”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Relevant evidence is admissible as long as the probative value of the evidence is not substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“almost four years after he filed his first motion for a new trial, and over seven years after his conviction”
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.