Commonwealth v. Pelletier’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Anderson v. United States · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co.
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.
“We note that all of the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals (except the District of Colombia Circuit, which has not dealt with the question) and the majority of State courts have indicated * * * that statements, even if testimonial, when not offered for their truth do not implicate the confrontation clause”
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.