21 Mass. App. Ct. 408 - Commonwealth v. Saez’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stewart (1991), 30 Mass. App. Ct. 490 - Commonwealth v. James (1991)
25 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 Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares · Commonwealth v. Benders · Berry v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Conroy
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot rely on evidence that merely places the defendant at the scene of the crime and shows him to be in association with the principals. Rather, the Commonwealth must present additional evidence which implicates the defendant in the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mere presence at the scene of the crime and the 'failure to take affirmative steps to prevent it do not render a person liable as a participant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“justify an inference that [he also] participated in [its] commission.”
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.