Commonwealth v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Williams (1994), State v. Collins (2011)
45 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. Zettlemoyer · Commonwealth v. Frey · Commonwealth v. Brady · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Lively
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause empty shell casings from the same weapon were found at both murder scenes, and [the defendant] was identified as the handgun shooter in the second murder, in which a ten millimeter bullet was found in the victim's head, evidence of the second murder is admissible to establish [the defendant's] identity as the shooter in the first”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]onvictions are defined by the essential and necessary facts upon which they are based, and judgments of sentence flow naturally from, and form an integral part of, those convictions. Thus, reason impels that the construction of the term `convictions' in [section] 9711(d)(9) be such as to permit consideration of the essential and necessary facts pertaining to the convictions, including the circumstances of the crimes and the sentences imposed. In the present case, therefore, no error was committed when the jury was informed . . . of appellant's prior murder conviction[] . . ., and that the jury in that case had returned a verdict of death.”
2 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.