Commonwealth v. Figueroa’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pytou Heang (2011), Commonwealth v. Durand (2010)
25 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 · Rhode Island v. Innis · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Johnson v. United States · Patterson v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an unintentional event occurring through inadvertence, mistake, or negligence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the evidence at trial fairly raised the possibility that [the defendant caused the victim's death] unintentionally while engaged in conduct that was neither wanton nor reckless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lugo“Photographs usually are authenticated directly through competent testimony that the scene they show is a fair and accurate representation of something the witness actually saw”
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.