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20 Mass. App. Ct. 955 - Commonwealth v. Coull’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 1993
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Bailey · Commonwealth v. Coleman · Commonwealth v. LeBlanc · Commonwealth v. Izzo

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

  1. “by the jury's hearing those witnesses colorlessly recount the bare facts of their encounter, but not their conversations, with the victim.”
    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.