Commonwealth v. Barbosa’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
34 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Andreas v. United States · Commonwealth v. Upton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A weapon that could have been used in the course of a crime is admissible, in the judge's discretion, even without direct proof that the particular weapon was in fact used in the commission of the crime”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a weapon definitively could not have been used in the commission of the crime, we have generally cautioned against admission of evidence related to it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A witness's pretrial identification is admissible for substantive purposes, even in the absence of an in-court identification, provided the identifying witness testifies at trial and is subject to cross-examination”
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.