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← 431 Mass. 21 - Commonwealth v. Calderon

Commonwealth v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Alexander v. Louisiana · Norris v. State of Alabama · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States

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

  1. “The usual tools we rely on to measure one's ethnicity, primarily name and appearance, are often deceptive.”
    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.