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← 2 Mass. App. Ct. 869 - Commonwealth v. Borges

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.

  1. “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.