Commonwealth v. Starkweather’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chimel v. California · United States v. Ross · Weeks v. United States · Nix v. Williams · Arizona v. Gant
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.
“Evidence of a victim’s state of mind or behavior following a crime has long been admissible if relevant to a contested issue in a case. Demeanor evidence may be of particular importance in a case such as this, where the trial devolves to a contest of credibility concerning whether the charged offense . . . occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.