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← 461 Mass. 397 - Commonwealth v. Cheremond

Commonwealth v. Cheremond’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Beck v. State of Ohio · Commonwealth v. Latimore · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Flebotte

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

  1. “[e]vidence of a defendant's prior bad acts [is] not admissible to show bad character or propensity to commit the crime for which he has been charged. It may, however, be admitted, if relevant, for some other purpose ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “are for the jury to resolve and do not render evidence inadmissible.”
    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.