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← 431 MASS 30 - Commonwealth v. Fowler

Commonwealth v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
2
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

40 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Doyle v. Ohio · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Mahdi

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

  1. “Penetration can be inferred from circumstantial evidence.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “counsel 'makes known to the court the action which he desires the court to take or his objection to the action of the court.'”
    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.