23 Mass. App. Ct. 552 - Commonwealth v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2012
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Faretta v. California · Justices of Boston Municipal Court v. Lydon · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Maynard v. Meachum
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant's choice to have a bench trial in the first instance, without any prospect of review of errors occurring in the course of that trial, means that a considerable variety of errors might occur from which he could not obtain any relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Mahoney“even if of constitutional magnitude, do not survive as a basis for complaint once the case has moved to the second tier,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Mahoney
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.