Commonwealth v. Baumhammers’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Spotz (2011), Commonwealth v. Johnson (2009)
108 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 Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Atkins v. Virginia
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]iscretion is abused when the course pursued represents not merely an error of judgment, but where the judgment is manifestly unreasonable or where the law is not applied or where the record shows that the action is a result of partiality, prejudice, bias or ill will”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) fabrication, bias, improper influence or motive, or faulty memory and the statement was made before that which has been charged existed or arose; or (2) having made a prior inconsistent statement, which the witness has denied or explained, and the consistent statement supports the witness’ denial or explanation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[k]illing by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing.”
2 later decisions 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.