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← 456 MASS 1019 - Commonwealth v. Snow

Commonwealth v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Commonwealth v. Cook · Commonwealth v. Salman · Barber v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Richardson

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

  1. “interests regarding witness safety, 'as important as they are, do not always give rise to the type of 'exceptional circumstances' that warrant the exercise of this court's supervisory powers”
    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.