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← 432 MASS 214 - Commonwealth v. Perry

Commonwealth v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

35 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brewer v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Anthony 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where a defendant causes injury which, along with other contributing factors or medical sequella of the injury, leads to death, jurors may determine that the defendant's acts were the proximate cause of the injury”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a cause, which, in the natural and continuous sequence produced death, and without which the death would not have occurred”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the cumulative effect of the beatings and starvation led to the victim's death.”
    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.