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← 423 MASS 62 - Commonwealth v. Robles

Commonwealth v. Robles’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Vick (2009), Commonwealth v. Garrey (2002)

2 district · 41 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 Chimel v. California · United States v. Edwards · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Figueroa v. United States · Robinett v. United States

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

  1. “[f]alse statements to police may be considered as consciousness of guilt if there is other evidence tending to prove the falsity of the statements.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “probable cause to believe that the [clothing] was connected to the crime.”
    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.