Commonwealth v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Watson · Commonwealth v. Koney · Commonwealth v. Netto · Commonwealth v. Redmond
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.
“An error creates a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice unless we are persuaded that it did not 'materially influence[ ]' the guilty verdict”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The crime was an elaborate venture requiring detailed planning and was unlikely to be accomplished successfully without weapons and masks”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether it can be inferred from the record that counsel's failure to object was not simply a reasonable tactical decision”
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.