Commonwealth v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Vermont v. Cox · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Mello
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the images] are neither 'so unmistakably clear or so hopelessly obscure that the witness is no better-suited than the jury to make the identification'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the defendant is disguised in the photograph or has changed his appearance since the time of the crime.”
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.