Commonwealth v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Britto · Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald · Commonwealth v. Santoli
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that a judge in this Commonwealth may question witnesses to clarify and develop evidence and to avert perjury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. M.G. v. G.A.“judges in jury-waived trials are presumed to know and correctly apply the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.