Commonwealth v. Espinal’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2022
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hernandez v. New York · Rosales-Lopez v. United States · Shieh v. State Bar · White v. Burdick · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“victims will promptly disclose a sexual attack' and that 'the absence of a timely complaint suggests fabrication.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless it is from the first complaint witness or in response to a defense theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[in King], [w]e sought to disabuse the jury of the misapprehensions that '”
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.