Commonwealth v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Brecheen v. Oklahoma (1988), Commonwealth v. Lovette (1982)
51 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co · Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus · Commonwealth v. Kichline · Commonwealth v. Tabb
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““whether the pre-trial publicity was, on the one hand, factual and objective, or, on the other hand, consisted of sensational, inflammatory and 'slanted articles demanding conviction,’ United States v. Sawyers, 423 F.2d 1335, 1343 (4th Cir.1970); whether the pre-trial publicity revealed the existence of the accused’s prior criminal record; whether it referred to confessions, admissions or reenactments of the crime by the defendant; and whether such information is the product of reports by the police and prosecutorial officers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`appellate tribunals have the duty to make an independent evaluation of the circumstances[]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any inflammatory statements as to the merits of the case, or the character of the accused”
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.