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← 430 MASS 44 - Commonwealth v. LaFaille

Commonwealth v. LaFaille’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Paszko · Commonwealth v. Kostka · Commonwealth v. Sheline · Commonwealth v. Hobbs

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

  1. “fully inform the judge of the basis for the request.”
    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.