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← 440 MASS 731 - Commonwealth v. Lopes

Commonwealth v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
August 2022
most recently cited

2 district · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lao (2005), Commonwealth v. McCoy (2010)

2 district · 29 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Shieh v. State Bar · Stenberg v. Carhart · United States v. Dellinger · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney

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

  1. “[a] trial judge, who is aware of the facts of a particular case and can observe firsthand the demeanor of each prospective juror, is in the best position to determine what questions are necessary reasonably to ensure that a particular jury can weigh and view the evidence impartially.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 815 - Commonwealth v. Bannister · Commonwealth v. Espinal
  2. “there exists a substantial risk of extraneous issues that might influence the jury,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Robertson · Commonwealth v. Espinal
  3. “"[where] it appears that ... a decision [may] be made in whole or in part upon issues extraneous to the case, including, but not limited to, community attitudes, possible exposure * to potentially prejudicial material or possible preconceived opinions toward the credibility of certain classes of persons."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Espinal

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.