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← 2 MASSAPPCT 838 - Commonwealth v. Manning

Commonwealth v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2003
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Michelson v. United States · Roberts v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Gardner · Commonwealth v. Belton · Commonwealth v. Porter

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The excluded testimony ... bore only on the issue of consent, not on veracity. Wigmore, Evidence, § 924b (B) (Chadbourn rev. 1970). The convictions on the other indictments are therefore not affected by the error.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the witness demonstrated knowledge of the complainant's general reputation for chastity,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “could only properly go to the weight to be accorded her testimony,”
    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.