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← 430 MASS 66 - Commonwealth v. Pina

Commonwealth v. Pina’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Romano v. United States · Rosales-Lopez v. United States · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman

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

  1. “the term 'race' reflects the historical division of humanity by physical characteristics into three primary divisions: Caucasian, Mongolian, & Negro.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It is in the sound discretion of trial judges to determine on a case-by-case basis whether an individual voir dire is required.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “We ... reverse a judge's failure to question jurors individually upon request only 'when a”
    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.