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← 51 MASSAPPCT 170 - Commonwealth v. O'Neil

Commonwealth v. O'Neil’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · United States v. Abel · Commonwealth v. Satterfield

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “rather than a tactical decision. She concluded, however, that the evidence of the defendant's guilt was overwhelming and that the error did not give rise to a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice. We agree. 4 Although informing the jury of the existence of a cooperation agreement would have been a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Absent circumstances or an agreement revealing a different approach, ... 'documents marked for identification are not in evidence.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[A] defendant is entitled to reasonable cross-examination of a witness for the purpose of showing bias,”
    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.