Commonwealth v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Grubbs · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Zinser · Commonwealth v. Rosario · Commonwealth v. Arana
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the admission of multiple reports of a victim's allegations of rape is permissible where the evidence serves an independent purpose and is necessary to present a fair and accurate picture of the Commonwealth's case.”
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.