Commonwealth v. Paddy’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grant (2002), Commonwealth v. Collins (2005)
1 federal appellate · 74 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [trial] court is not ... required to sanitize the trial to eliminate all unpleasant facts from the jury’s consideration where those facts are relevant to the issues at hand and form part of the history and natural development of the events and offenses for which the defendant is charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence that is relevant may nevertheless be inadmissible if it violates a rule of competency, such as the hearsay rule”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]ttempts by a defendant to suppress evidence are admissible to demonstrate his or her consciousness of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ward
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.