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← 430 MASS 552 - Commonwealth v. Christian

Commonwealth v. Christian’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 53 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · McGinnis v. Hadix

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

  1. “[w]e can envision no situation in which an armed robbery would not support a conviction of felony-murder.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “To do otherwise would permit the prosecutor to smear the defendant by extrajudicial statements made by [the inmate] while denying the defendant the opportunity to impeach [the inmate's] credibility.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[A]n instruction on felony-murder in the second degree is necessary when there is a rational basis in the evidence to warrant the instruction”
    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.