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← 463 MASS 378 - Commonwealth v. Carey

Commonwealth v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Lawrence v. Texas · Bowers v. Hardwick · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Jaworski v. Kiernan · Commonwealth v. Randolph

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

  1. “Without looking at the videos for itself, the court could not have fully assessed the potential prejudice to Loughry and weighed it against the evidence's probative value.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “We entrust questions of relevancy and prejudicial effect to the sound discretion of the trial judge, whose determinations we will not disturb except for palpable error”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “[T]he judge's failure to view the video prior to ruling that its probative value outweighed its prejudicial effect was an abuse of discretion.”
    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.