Commonwealth v. Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Batson v. Kentucky · Fay v. Noia · Griffith v. Kentucky · Evitts v. Lucey
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“channeling the widest category of matters possible into the statutory post-conviction procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. West
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.