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← 427 MASS 65 - Commonwealth v. Marrero

Commonwealth v. Marrero’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Alphas (1999), Commonwealth v. Simpson (2001)

46 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. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Hoffer · Commonwealth v. Chalifoux · Commonwealth v. Salemme · Commonwealth v. Cordle

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

  1. “In these circumstances, it was unavoidable that evidence of the defendant's drug business and his interactions with his customers would be admitted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It also may be used where evidence of the prior bad acts is inextricably intertwined with the description of events ... of the killing”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the killing could have appeared to the jury as an * essentially inexplicable act of violence.”
    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.