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← 461 MASS 10 - Commonwealth v. Murray

Commonwealth v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
February 2023
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Tucceri

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

  1. “First, the evidence must have been in the possession, custody, or control of the prosecutor or a person subject to the prosecutor's control.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “whether there is a substantial risk that the jury would have reached a different conclusion if the evidence had been admitted at trial.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “a real factor in the jury's deliberations.”
    2 later decisions 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.