Commonwealth v. Marrero’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Karenbauer (1998), Commonwealth v. Robinson (2004)
48 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Morgan v. Illinois · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“were a fair response to defense counsel's anticipated argument that a life sentence meant that [the defendant] would spend his entire life in prison”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of voir dire is to ensure the empaneling of a fair and impartial jury capable of following the instructions of the trial court.”
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.