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← 459 MASS 756 - Commonwealth v. Chown

Commonwealth v. Chown’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2014
most recently cited

2 district · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Jimenez · Commonwealth v. Storey · Commonwealth v. Santaliz

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

  1. “the Commonwealth bears the burden of establishing that the actions of the police met constitutional standards.”
    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.