Commonwealth v. Deloney’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Raymond · Commonwealth v. Santiago · Commonwealth v. Degro
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a linking of the generalized opinion to the experience of the actual child witness is impermissible vouching.... If that link is avoided, and the testimony does not focus on the specific child witness, the testimony is usually allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impermissibly ... invited to find an identity between the hypothetical subjects of the expert testimony and the specific child witness who has testified before them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t was not good practice for the prosecutor to discuss the definition of 'reasonable doubt' in the closing argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ward
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.