Commonwealth v. Javier’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Henson · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Longo
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A trial judge has wide discretion to qualify an expert witness and to decide whether the witness's testimony should be admitted. ...' Such a decision 'will be reversed only where it constitutes an abuse of discretion or other error of law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence taken together may form proof of crime where any individual fact, taken alone, does not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it 'sufficiently resembles the actual event so as to be fair and informative.'”
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.