2 Mass. App. Ct. 869 - Commonwealth v. Borges’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
March 1986
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Conroy · Commonwealth v. McDonald · Commonwealth v. Foran · McKnight v. Red Cab Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judge's comment amounted to an instruction as to the inference which the jury should draw”
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.