Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
August 2001
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Beckett · Commonwealth v. Merola · 27 Mass. App. Ct. 485 - Commonwealth v. Fazzino
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the fingerprint lifted from the doorknob was unsmudged 2 , and since the bathroom was used regularly by all the store's employees, the print was likely put there by one of the last people to touch the knob.”
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.