Commonwealth v. Despees’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Bohannon · Commonwealth v. Boyd · Commonwealth v. Acevedo · Commonwealth v. Carrion
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the complaining witness is suffering from mental impairment... evidence of how that impairment might affect [his] capacity to perceive, remember and articulate the alleged events ... can be used to impeach [his] credibility”
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.