Commonwealth v. Dancy’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
August 2021
most recently cited
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Fidler
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“personal assurance by the witness that the crime charged had occurred, and thereby constitutes an improper intrusion into the fact-finding function of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] judicial observation that a juror is asleep, or a judge's receipt of reliable information to that effect, requires prompt judicial intervention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f the sleeping is observed at the outset or when the juror is beginning to 'nod off'”
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.