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← 427 MASS 754 - Commonwealth v. Kent K.

Commonwealth v. Kent K.’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
September 2011
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Commonwealth v. Ruiz (2004), Commonwealth v. Freeman (1999)

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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. Cunneen · Commonwealth v. Santiago · Commonwealth v. Santoli · Commonwealth v. Schulze · Commonwealth v. Valentin

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

  1. “contains only a generic denial of the accusations against him, which is inadmissible evidence . . . and hearsay evidence . . . that would not have helped [Johnson] at his bench trial or at his trial by jury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Johnson v. Mahoney
  2. “knowledge of the police report would have bolstered defense counsel's opening statement by permitting reference to [Johnson's] willingness to talk to the police immediately after the shooting.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Johnson v. Mahoney
  3. “In the face of repeated requests by counsel for specific and identified information, there should be no room in the criminal justice system for such carelessness — if that is what it was.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Johnson v. Mahoney

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.