33 Mass. App. Ct. 433 - Commonwealth v. Sousa’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2004
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Betty Corporation v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Clancy · Commonwealth v. Barbosa · Commonwealth v. Chagnon · Commonwealth v. Massod
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One may 'register' a bet, however, by committing it to memory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“upon the result of a trial or contest of skill”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“usually connotes a recording or notation.”
2 later decisions 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.