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Commonwealth v. Dyer’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
4
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

25 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Waller v. Georgia · Massa v. United States · Presley v. Georgia · Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation · Commonwealth v. Wright

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

  1. “an unexpected happening that occurs without intention or design on the part of the defendant”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “extra level of review under G. L. c. 278, § 33E”
    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.