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← 443 MASS 707 - Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

Commonwealth v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Richards v. Wisconsin · ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish · Commonwealth v. Jimenez · Commonwealth v. Azar · Cousineau v. Laramee

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

  1. “The defendant raises no new factual or legal issue in her rule 30 (b) motion. She simply seeks to relitigate ... based on her assertion that her direct appeal was decided wrongly”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “actually litigated and determined on the defendant's original motion.”
    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.