Commonwealth v. Tang’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3509
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · State v. Snowden · People v. Vigil · Commonwealth v. Whitehead
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.
““there is a countervailing assurance of reliability in the excitement of the event[; therefore,] the other aspects of competency are not applied. Thus, an excited utterance is admissible despite the fact that the declarant was a child and would have been incompetent as a witness for that reason, or the declarant was incompetent by virtue of mental illness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“like any person in [her] position, would have been consumed by the immediacy of the situation ..., [therefore it] 'is almost inconceivable that, moments after [the assault] ... [she] could have spoken in contemplation of a future legal proceeding.'”
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.