Commonwealth v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Caldwell v. Mississippi · Woodson v. North Carolina · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · California v. Ramos · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) the sentence of death was the product of passion, prejudice or any other arbitrary factor; or (ii) the evidence fails to support the finding of at least one aggravating circumstance specified in subsection (d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance,” id., § 9711(e)(2), and”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. May
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.