Commonwealth v. Flint’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hernandez v. New York · Draper v. Washington · Maine v. Taylor · Wrenn v. Weinberger · Commonwealth v. Freeman
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.
“In the face of these direct assertions of evidence of improper motives underlying the victim's accusations, it was fair for the prosecutor to reply by asking the jury rhetorically, 'Why would a person make up something like this? What is the motive to fabricate? Are they being honest? Are they responsive to questions? Are they being direct? Do they appear to be forthcoming? Do they appear to be genuine? Do they sound as if they are giving contrived answers?' ... These questions were specifically tied to the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reduces to a complaint that the judge did not credit his position with respect to missing elements of the record.”
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.