Commonwealth v. Haight’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Commonwealth v. Chmiel (2005), Commonwealth v. Dennis (1998)
40 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 Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Norris · Commonwealth v. Williams
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q: Was [defendant] working on May the 4th, 1981? A: No, he didn’t work then. Q: Was he working prior to that time? A: Yes. Q: When did he last have a job? [Defense Counsel]: Your Honor, this is beyond the scope of direct examination. I object to this. [The Court]: Well, I see nothing wrong with this. Proceed. [Prosecutor]: To your knowledge, what income, if any, did Mr. Haight have on or about May 4th, 1981?' A: He was on assistance. Q: How long had he been on assistance prior to that time? A: Since December, I think.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.