Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
189 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Widmer (2000), Commonwealth v. Gribble (1997)
189 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 Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Anschuetz & Co. v. Mississippi River Bridge Authority · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer · Jones v. Farm Credit Administration
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a new trial should be awarded when the jury's verdict is so contrary to the evidence as to shock one's sense of justice and the award of a new trial is imperative so that right may be given another opportunity to prevail.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[When] the record adequately supports the trial court, the trial court has acted within the limits of its judicial discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Unlike the challenge of legal sufficiency of the evidence, the complaint that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence requires an assessment of the credibility of the testimony offered by the Commonwealth. It is a rule of this Commonwealth that an appellate tribunal should not entertain a challenge to the weight of the evidence since their examination is confined to the "cold record."'”
4 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.