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← 90 MASSAPPCT 315 - Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “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.