Commonwealth v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hiskin (2007), Commonwealth v. Baran (2009)
35 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 Darden v. Wainwright · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Grace
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An adjudication of any child as a delinquent child ... shall not be received in evidence or used against such child for any purpose in any proceedings in any court . . .; nor shall such adjudication . . . operate to disqualify a child in any future examination, appointment, or application for public service under the government either of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In those instances where the defendant's attack on his conviction or his plea by a rule 30 [b] motion proceeds, necessarily, on a basis extrinsic to an unavailable contemporaneous record, a judge is not required to accept the defendant's self-serving affidavit as sufficient to satisfy his burden”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he desirability of finality in the adjudication of cases and the Commonwealth's interest in the fair and efficient administration of justice are factors to be considered along with the ever-present concern that justice not miscarry for the defendant.”
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.