Commonwealth v. Duffey’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wright (2008), Commonwealth v. Spotz (2011)
31 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Pulley v. Harris · Rompilla v. Beard · Mills v. Maryland · Simmons v. South Carolina
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.
“[T]his [C]ourt’s relaxed waiver doctrine was discretionary, and thus, there was no guarantee that we would have analyzed [issues not previously presented] under the relaxed waiver doctrine . .. Accordingly, any reliance on this [C]ourt’s relaxed waiver doctrine is unavailing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.