Commonwealth v. Treiber’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer · Jones v. Farm Credit Administration
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that once a jury has been properly instructed on the nature of aggravating and mitigating circumstances as defined in the statute, as well as on the statutory scheme for balancing one against the other, it is not for reviewing courts to usurp the jury function and to substitute their judgment for that of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Flor“evidence is only admissible where the probative value of the evidence outweighs its prejudicial impact.”
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.