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← 454 MASS 232 - Commonwealth v. Molina

Commonwealth v. Molina’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · United States v. Cronic · McGinnis v. Hadix · Spence v. Educational Credit Management Corp.

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

  1. “how receiving this information earlier would have affected his preparation of the case and did not move for a continuance, thus undermining his assertion that counsel was unable to prepare properly.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “not apt, as this is not a case where the evidence remained undisclosed until after trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “late disclosure ... requires the defendant to show prejudice”
    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.