Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Spence v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Brzezinski
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Records kept by hospitals [as required by statute] . . . may be admitted ... as evidence in the courts of the commonwealth so far as such records relate to the treatment and medical history of such cases . . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“permits the introduction of records containing even second level hearsay provided the information in the record is of a nature that is relied on by medical professionals in administering health care.”
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.