Commonwealth v. Niemic’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Doyle v. Ohio · Goldberg v. Ellett · McGinnis v. Hadix · Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Commonwealth v. Wright
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his was a case where the prosecutor was confronting the defendant with his prearrest statements, and impeaching him with inconsistencies between those statements and his trial testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The prosecutor was entitled to cross-examine the defendant about those inconsistencies, including any omissions in those statements that were different from his trial testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prosecutor did not mention the matter in his closing argument, thus keeping any prejudice at a minimum”
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.