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← 428 MASS 672 - Commonwealth v. Charles

Commonwealth v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
2
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

28 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Richardson v. Marsh · United States v. Dixon

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

  1. “As a general matter, it should not be presumed that an absent witness may invoke his or her privilege against self-incrimination”
    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.