Commonwealth v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
117
cited by 117 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
111 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arizona v. Fulminante · Commonwealth v. Hughes · Commonwealth v. Clement · Commonwealth v. Clement
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I find the federal model vastly superior to continuation of a rule so readily capable of avoidance as to function as no rule at all; indeed, I believe that its maintenance on such terms carries with it the potential for diminishing respect for the courts' authority in the eyes of those subject to their lawful mandates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[g]iven the present holding, I now favor abandonment of the Davenport/Duncan construct and reversion to the federal model entailing consideration of the totality of the circumstances in every case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.