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← 445 MASS 734 - Commonwealth v. LeClair

Commonwealth v. LeClair’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
September 2015
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Edwards v. Arizona · Oregon v. Bradshaw · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Kinney v. United States · Dollar v. United States

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

  1. “well-established rule that evidence of provocation by a third party, rather than the victim of a homicide, is insufficient to warrant a voluntary manslaughter instruction”); State v. Vinso, 171 Mo. 576, 590 , 71 S.W. 1034, 1038 (1903) (rejecting heat of passion argument where victim”
    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.