Commonwealth v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Michigan v. Bryant · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. McLaughlin
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.
“provided the trial judge with a firm basis for his conclusion that [the child caller's] initial statements to [the police dispatcher] were the product of the ordeal she had just experienced and not the result of conscious reflection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even in the case of a 911 telephone call initiated by the victim of a crime to deal with an ongoing emergency, some statements made during the course of the conversation may be classified as testimonial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“temporal closeness of the statements to the startling event”
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.