Commonwealth v. Batista’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · Commonwealth v. Casale
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge sitting without a jury is presumed, absent contrary indication, to have correctly instructed himself as to the manner in which evidence is to be considered in his role as factfinder.”
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.