Commonwealth v. Blackmer’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Casale · Commonwealth v. Grandison · Commonwealth v. Campbell
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.
“Proof of the identity of the person who committed the offense may be established in a number of ways and '[i]t is not necessary that any one witness should distinctly swear that the defendant was the man.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“conflicting inferences are possible, it is for the [fact finder] to determine where the truth lies, for the weight and credibility of the evidence is wholly within [the fact finder's] province”
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.