Commonwealth v. Bienvenu’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Moran · Commonwealth v. Garcia · Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Severance is required only where the defense of a defendant and that of a codefendant are 'antagonistic to the point of being mutually exclusive,' or where 'the prejudice resulting from a joint trial is so compelling that it prevents [the] defendant from obtaining a fair trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Absent a constitutional requirement for severance, joinder and severance are matters committed to the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“focus the analysis on whether the evidence is explanatory .”
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.