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← 38 MASSAPPCT 912 - Commonwealth v. Elberry

Commonwealth v. Elberry’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
August 2011
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011

3 federal appellate · 2 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. Toney · Commonwealth v. Person · 10 Mass. App. Ct. 190 - Commonwealth v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Feigenbaum · 26 Mass. App. Ct. 441 - Commonwealth v. Robinson

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.

  1. “defendant, who was a witness in this case, was here during the testimony of other witnesses, but he’s got every right to be here,” and”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Did any of the witnesses have the opportunity to see exactly how every other witness testified in this case and then tailor their testimony to that evidence? Some of you are shaking your heads. One person did, one witness did, one witness saw every other person testify, the defendant (pointing).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “out of bounds and should not have been made[,]” but the curative instruction, to which no party objected,”
    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.