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← 430 MASS 569 - Commonwealth v. LaBriola

Commonwealth v. LaBriola’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Victor v. Nebraska · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Commonwealth v. Madeiros

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

  1. “[w]e have never held that 'moral certainty' must be immediately followed by content- lending language, only that it must be linked with such language”
    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.