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← 455 MASS 307 - Commonwealth v. Ridge

Commonwealth v. Ridge’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
2
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

29 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Anthony v. United States · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Kozec

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

  1. “challenge the adequacy of a police investigation and may use information concerning third-party culprits to question whether the police took reasonable steps to investigate the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “for some other purpose ... such as to show a common scheme, pattern of operation, absence of accident or mistake, identity, intent, or motive”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The 'decision whether to allow leading questions [is] left for the most part to the wisdom and discretion of the trial judge.'”
    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.