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← 319 MASS 495 - Commonwealth v. Noxon

Commonwealth v. Noxon’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

67
cited by 67 later decisions
6
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 61 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. French (1970), Commonwealth v. Bonomi (1957)

2 district · 61 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 Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Tucker · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Commonwealth v. Russ · Guinan v. Famous Players-Lasky Corp.

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

  1. “[t]he Commonwealth having introduced as part of its case statements of the defendant as to happenings, observations and state of mind, and there being no evidence contradicting them, the Commonwealth is bound by those statements, observations and testimony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It was for the jury to determine the weight to be given to the statements of the defendant. They were not obliged to accept or reject his statements in their entirety, but could give credence to only such portion as they deemed trustworthy,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “it is open to the other party to show on cross-examination of the expert that there are facts in the case not accounted for in the opinion of the expert”
    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.