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← 415 MASS 161 - Commonwealth v. Murphy

Commonwealth v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

1 district · 24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Crawford (1994), Commonwealth v. Miranda (2004)

1 district · 24 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 California v. ARC America Corp. · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · Commonwealth v. Ferreira · Commonwealth v. Cooper

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

  1. “Where a crime can be committed in any one of several ways, an indictment properly charges its commission in all those ways, using the conjunction 'and' in joining them”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “has not shown that the [change] prejudiced him in his defense.”
    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.