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← 457 MASS 387 - Commonwealth v. Dargon

Commonwealth v. Dargon’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
states following
September 2021
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Aviles (2011), Commonwealth v. Millien (2016)

37 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Adair v. United States · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Satterfield

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

  1. “'fact-specific references to the reported cause of [h]er injuries' made for purposes of obtaining medical treatment . . . were . . . admissible even though 'incidental to liability'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “record which relates directly and mainly to the treatment and medical history of the patient, should be admitted, even though incidentally the facts recorded may have some bearing on the question of liability”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “makes admissible only those portions of records relating to treatment and medical history which possess the characteristics justifying the presumption of reliability”
    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.