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← 446 MASS 785 - Commonwealth v. Weichell

Commonwealth v. Weichell’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Martinez-Salazar · Johnson v. United States · Goldberg v. Ellett · Commonwealth v. Grace · United States v. Thomas

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

  1. “[t]he motion judge decides not whether the verdict would have been different,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a significant error of law or other abuse of discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “casts real doubt on the justice of the conviction.”
    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.