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Commonwealth v. Borgos’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Hoffer · Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago · Commonwealth v. Miles · Commonwealth v. Walker

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

  1. “For a motion to suppress a photographic identification to succeed, the defendant must show by a preponderance of the evidence that, in light of the totality of the circumstances, the procedures employed were so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification as to deny the defendant due process of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “until after a positive identification had been made by the witness.”
    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.