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← 459 MASS 235 - Commonwealth v. Marrero

Commonwealth v. Marrero’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Harris v. New York · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. Stewart

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

  1. “entitled to reject summarily any claim supported only by the defendant's self-serving affidavits.”
    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.