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← 456 MASS 490 - Commonwealth v. Vuthy Seng

Commonwealth v. Vuthy Seng’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
4
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

31 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Ross v. Oklahoma · United States v. Martinez-Salazar · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bowden · Commonwealth v. Hoffer

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

  1. “advising the jury that reasonable doubt as to the defendant's guilt could arise from a finding that law enforcement failed adequately to investigate the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “jurors can and should be trusted to separate what they see on television from what evidence is presented at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “'The CSI effect' is a subject beyond the permissible scope of judicial notice”
    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.