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← 450 MASS 858 - Commonwealth v. Mathews

Commonwealth v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

27 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on City of Los Angeles v. Department of Transportation · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. Bowden · State v. Harvey

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. “that the presentation of the false or deceptive evidence probably influenced the grand jury's determination to hand up an indictment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Generally, a trial judge is accorded 'substantial discretion in deciding whether evidence is relevant'”
    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.