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← 436 MASS 558 - Commonwealth v. Maynard

Commonwealth v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 48 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Anthony v. United States · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Commonwealth v. Soares

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

  1. “Because it has already been determined that the prosecutor's misstatement does not warrant reversal under G. L. c. 278, § 33E, [defendant] cannot now succeed on his ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on counsel's failure to object to that same error”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Because we determine that there was sufficient evidence to support a conviction * of murder in the first degree ..., we hold that trial counsel's failure to move for a required finding of not guilty did not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[a] cause is concurrent if it was operative at the moment of death and acted with another cause to produce the 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.