15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Flebotte (1994), Commonwealth v. Alphas (1999)
2 district · 166 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · Weiler v. United States · Commonwealth v. McInerney · Commonwealth v. Benders
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not influence the jury or had but very slight effect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the error itself had substantial influence. If so, or if one is left in grave doubt, the conviction cannot stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Wray“The inquiry cannot be merely whether there was enough to support the result, apart from the phase affected by the error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Wray
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.