Commonwealth v. Poitras’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2022
11 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 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi · Commonwealth v. Bishop · Commonwealth v. Dockham · Commonwealth v. Montanino · Commonwealth v. Trowbridge
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the expert fatally crossed the line, however, between proper 'abused child' profile opinion and impermissible profile opinion when she testified at length ... about the typical attributes and characteristics of those most likely to abuse children, which mirrored prior prosecution evidence about the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Conyac
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.