Commonwealth v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 171 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Widmer (2000), State v. Rose (1994)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 171 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Weatherford v. Bursey · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Owens
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interject[] religious law as an additional factor for the jury’s consideration which neither flows from the evidence or any legitimate inference to be drawn therefrom.” Id.; see also Romine v. Head, 253 F.3d 1349 , 1368 (11th Cir.2001) (”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Mandatory. In all court cases, on request by the defendant, and subject to any protective order which the Commonwealth might obtain under this rule, the Commonwealth shall disclose to the defendant’s attorney all of the following requested items or information, provided they are material to the instant case. The Commonwealth shall, when applicable, permit the defendant’s attorney to inspect and copy or photograph such items ... (f) any tangible objects, including documents, photographs, fingerprints, or other tangible evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As the Bible says, ‘and the murderer shall be put to death.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.