Commonwealth v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lister v. United States · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · State v. Henderson · Commonwealth v. Crayton · Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista
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.
“"[The] model jury instructions on eyewitness identification direct juries to 'evaluate the identification with particular care' where the police fail to follow a protocol that is established or recommended by the law enforcement agency conducting the identification procedure.... A defendant may request such an instruction where a police department that has chosen the sequential method fails to employ it in an identification procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice”
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.