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← 314 MASS 424 - Berlandi v. Commonwealth

Berlandi v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1943

Citation profile

65
cited by 65 later decisions
6
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

2 district · 63 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bonomi (1957), Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. v. State Baltimore Broadcasting Corp. (1949)

2 district · 63 state decisions

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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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Cooke v. United States · Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co · Terry · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company

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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A view is not technically evidence and subject to all the principles applicable to evidence in the technical sense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “it has been said that [a view] inevitably has the effect of evidence, and information properly acquired upon a view 'may properly be treated as evidence in the case.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.