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← 420 MASS 499 - Commonwealth v. Salvati

Commonwealth v. Salvati’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

2 district · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · Rugendorf v. United States · Giles v. State of Maryland

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

  1. “a substantial risk that the jury would have reached a different conclusion had the evidence been admitted at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “casts real doubt on the justice of the conviction”
    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.