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← 458 MASS 702 - Commonwealth v. Housen

Commonwealth v. Housen’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton · Commonwealth v. Wright · Tucker v. Fischbein

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

  1. “whether the evidence is sufficient to permit a rational juror to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly participated in the commission of the crime charged, with the intent required to commit the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “examine the sufficiency of the evidence separately as to principal and joint venture liability.”
    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.