46 Mass. App. Ct. 752 - Commonwealth v. McCaster’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Dinitz · Patton v. United States · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Freeman
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.
“[J]urors are always presumed to follow the instructions they are given.”
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.