Commonwealth v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago (2009), Commonwealth v. Edwards (2005)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
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 Pelaes v. United States · Morgan v. United States · Goldberg v. Ellett · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Adams
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[makes] no showing that any tests would have produced something that likely would have influenced the outcome of the case.” Commonwealth v. Rice, 441 Mass. 291, 303 , 805 N.E.2d 26 (2004) (citing Commonwealth v. Britto, 433 Mass. 596, 607 , 744 N.E.2d 1089 (2001)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because there is no affidavit from trial [or appellate] counsel, the defendant's assertions about what counsel did not do is speculative and need not be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]eversal for abuse of discretion is particularly rare . . . .”
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.