27 Mass. App. Ct. 72 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Murphy · Commonwealth v. Keizer · Commonwealth v. Harris · Commonwealth v. Jewett · 23 Mass. App. Ct. 40 - Commonwealth v. Vaughn
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]part from considerations of proximity in time and location, the instant and the similar crime must share singular features or present striking resemblances of method”
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.