Commonwealth v. Jaime J.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2022
8 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 Patton v. Yount · Commonwealth v. Wilborne · Commonwealth v. Watson · Commonwealth v. Mahoney · Commonwealth v. Claudio
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] potential juror's use of seemingly equivocal language, such as the word 'probably,' is not determinative of the juror's ability to be impartial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a trial judge . . . has examined a juror for possible bias and declared her indifferent, appellate courts defer to the judge's [broad] discretion 'unless juror prejudice is manifest'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is proper for the judge to question further in order to clarify whether the juror could be impartial,”
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.