Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Kozec · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not be necessary and inescapable, only reasonable * and possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the remarks in the context of the entire argument, in light of the judge's instruction to the jury and the evidence at trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a substantial risk that the jury would have reached a different conclusion had the evidence been admitted at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.