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← 457 MASS 268 - Commonwealth v. Womack

Commonwealth v. Womack’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 29 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · Negron v. United States · Goldberg v. Ellett · Commonwealth v. Wright

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

  1. “[e]xtrajudicial accusatory statements made in the presence of a defendant, which he [or she] has unequivocally denied, are hearsay and inadmissible as evidence of guilt in the Commonwealth's case-in-chief”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he core of any prejudice is more likely caused by admission of the accusations than the denials”
    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.