Commonwealth v. Wellard’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2023
1 district · 12 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 Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Ginsburg v. Stern · Commonwealth v. Curtis
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no doubt that the defense of misidentification was squarely before the jury, and ... the failure of defense counsel to request a Pressley instruction did not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]roperty is under a person's protection if it is attached to him or his clothing or under his immediate guard,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no doubt that the defense of misidentification was squarely before the jury”
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.