31 Mass. App. Ct. 554 - Commonwealth v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Marshall v. State (1993), Commonwealth v. Sespedes (2004)
2 district · 28 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. Montanez · 29 Mass. App. Ct. 613 - Commonwealth v. Arias · Russell v. Boston Wyman, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Dinnall
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here was ample circumstantial evidence, apart from the defendant's presence in the apartment when the search warrant was executed, to support an inference that she lived there and occupied the ... bedroom with [her boy friend]”
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.