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← 434 MASS 732 - Commonwealth v. Sicari

Commonwealth v. Sicari’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
3
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

38 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Michigan v. Mosley · Davis v. United States · Vrettos v. Plainfield Post Office · Commonwealth v. Flebotte

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

  1. “it must only provide a link in the chain of proof”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Evidence is relevant if (a) it has any tendency to make a fact more or less probable than it would be without the evidence and (b) the fact is of consequence in determining the action.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “we uphold a judge's decision in this area unless it is palpably wrong.”
    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.