Commonwealth v. Murungu’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Arana (2009), Commonwealth v. McCoy (2010)
27 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 Commonwealth v. Flebotte · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 437 - Commonwealth v. Peruzzi · United States v. Grubbs · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Quincy Q.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a jury-waived trial, we presume that the judge was not affected, as a jury might be, by”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“testimony was so lacking in detail as to be virtually insignificant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here was no 'piling on' of complaint witnesses,”
2 later decisions 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.