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← 450 MASS 441 - Commonwealth v. Murungu

Commonwealth v. Murungu’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
2
states following
November 2020
most recently cited

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

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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 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.

  1. “[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
  2. “testimony was so lacking in detail as to be virtually insignificant.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[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.