Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Franklin · Commonwealth v. Pratt · Commonwealth v. Zagranski · Commonwealth v. Niziolek
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judge implicitly concluded that the foundational requisites [for the missing witness instruction] had been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may have been construed by the jury as requiring them to reject the [ Bowden defense] suggested by defense counsel.”
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.