Commonwealth v. Tomoney’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
April 1998
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Ulatoski · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Commonwealth v. Boyle · Commonwealth v. Martin · Commonwealth v. Wright
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover ... we rejected the contention that pretrial certification of a case as capital or non-capital was desirable due to the “strong possibility” that a “death-qualified” jury would be conviction prone. We said that “[t]he requirement of individual voir dire in a capital case should give a defendant ample opportunity to explore for and isolate such bias.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pryer v. Zimmerman
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.