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← 33 MASSAPPCT 917 - Commonwealth v. Grady

Commonwealth v. Grady’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Rojas · Commonwealth v. Perez-Baez · 28 Mass. App. Ct. 28 - Commonwealth v. Shea

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

  1. “specificity ... which would trench more or less on the informant's anonymity, is not demanded”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1107 - Commonwealth v. (And · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 - Commonwealth v. Lobo
  2. “There is no distinction of consequence between references to unidentified convictions or unidentified arrests and seizures.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1107 - Commonwealth v. (And
  3. “is an indicator that the informant's report was accurate.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1107 - Commonwealth v. (And

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.