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← 449 MASS 462 - Commonwealth v. Cannon

Commonwealth v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
July 2020
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Semedo (2010)

4 federal appellate · 21 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that drug offenses frequently involve drug dealers being armed and that, in many cases, shootings and killings occur when a drug dealer is confronted by police, when a drug deal goes 'bad,' or when others try to steal the drugs.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It is for the jury to make a determination of credibility, Commonwealth v. Cannon , 449 Mass. 462 , 469 n.17, 869 N.E.2d 594 (2007), and”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “jury could reasonably infer that the defendant ... knew that the victim kept both money and illegal drugs in his apartment”
    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.