Commonwealth v. Nutbrown’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Commonwealth v. Drew · Commonwealth v. Lao · Commonwealth v. Bohannon · Commonwealth v. Lao
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.
“[H]ere the jury could reasonably have inferred that the car accident caused damage to the guardrail even without evidence as to the prior state of the guardrail”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impermissibly considered the credibility of the witnesses rather than that of [the declarant]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would not have made the statement unless he believed it to be true”
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.