21 Mass. App. Ct. 90 - Commonwealth v. Ruffen’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 1987
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Bianco · Commonwealth v. Joyce · Commonwealth v. Chretien · Commonwealth v. Watson · Commonwealth v. Wakelin
Most-quoted passages
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“highly theoretical suggestions ... [which] could reasonably be regarded by the trial judge as speculative in the extreme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Would you tell us what occurred at that time?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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