Commonwealth v. Mendes’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Alphas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the evidence, in its light most favorable to the Commonwealth, notwithstanding the contrary evidence presented by the defendant, is sufficient ... to permit the jury to infer the existence of the essential elements of the crime charged ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For that purpose we ... measure the error in the totality of the evidence and determine whether the properly admitted evidence independently permitted a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“independent evidence [that] included testimony of three audible shots, the three empty casings, and the smell of gunpowder”
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.