Commonwealth v. Philbrook’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tanner v. United States · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. McHoul · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Simpson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determination of a juror's impartiality is essentially one of credibility, and therefore largely one of demeanor, [a reviewing] court give[s] a trial judge's determination of impartiality great deference”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Article 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantee a criminal defendant the right to a trial before an impartial jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is one of the ways in which to safeguard a defendant's right to trial before an impartial jury. Philbrook , supra . Accordingly, extraneous influences on jurors present a”
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.