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Commonwealth v. Carmona’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Crayton (2014), Commonwealth v. Colon (2007)

31 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. Wright · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Henson · Commonwealth v. Connor

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

  1. ““When a party introduces a portion of a statement or writing in evidence the doctrine of verbal completeness allows admission of other relevant portions of the same statement or writing which serve to ‘clarify the context’ of the admitted portion. Commonwealth v. Robles, 423 Mass. 62, 69 (1996). The rule prevents a party from presenting a fragmented and misleading version of events to the finder of fact.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[h]earsay, once admitted, may be weighed with the other evidence, and given any evidentiary value which it may possess”
    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.