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← 461 MASS 1 - Commonwealth v. Johnson

Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. Torres · Dickerson v. Attorney General · Leaster v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Ambers

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 infamy of the crime and the severity of its consequences.”
    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.