Commonwealth v. Helberg’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Greenwood · Commonwealth v. Chavis · Commonwealth v. Rosario · Commonwealth v. Daggett · Commonwealth v. Beaudry
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is no categorical prohibition against suggestion by a prosecutor that a prosecution witness has no motive to lie.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fair response to an attack on the credibility of a government witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ward
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.