Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Chalifoux · Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe · Commonwealth v. Dougan · Commonwealth v. Montanino
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Commonwealth had a substantial and legitimate interest in rehabilitating its witness by showing why the witness informed [the police] about the defendant's alleged conduct after a long period of silence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]rior bad act evidence may ... be admitted where it 'tend[s] to rehabilitate the Commonwealth's witness by explaining why, after a long period of silence, she complained of the defendant's conduct.'”
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.