Commonwealth v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Moon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because such explanatory statements do not repeat the substance of out-of-court conversations, they pose no hearsay (and, by extension, no confrontation) issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[C]ircumstantial evidence is a permissible basis upon which to premise a conviction.”
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.