Commonwealth v. Riberio’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Price v. Georgia · Commonwealth v. Cunneen · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Luk v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Mamay
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mistrial 'ought to be [declared] with the greatest caution, under urgent circumstances, and for very plain and obvious causes.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]elling the jury that the victims have no reason to lie is over the line of permissible advocacy ....”
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.