Commonwealth v. Mazzoccoli’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2005
10 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 Rosche v. McCoy · Commonwealth v. Ware · Commonwealth v. Baker · Commonwealth v. Mazzoccoli
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Most [of the witness’s] answers were simply yes or no responses to leading questions. The entire transcript reveals that most of the time [the witness’s] answers could be manipulated by the question. Further, this entire testimony is fraught with inconsistencies and contradiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) has the capacity to observe or perceive the occurrence with a substantial degree of accuracy; (2) has the ability to remember the event which was observed or perceived; (3) has the ability to understand questions and to communicate intelligent answers about the occurrence; and (4) has a consciousness of the duty to speak the truth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.