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← 463 MASS 561 - Commonwealth v. Scott

Commonwealth v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Soares · Commonwealth v. Wright · Cecil v. United States · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Kansas v. Colorado

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

  1. “(1) there is a pattern of excluding members of a discrete group and (2) it is likely that individuals are being excluded solely on the basis of their membership in that group”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “without having to make the determination that a pattern of improper exclusion exists.”
    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.