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← 464 MASS 686 - Commonwealth v. Benitez

Commonwealth v. Benitez’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

2 district · 7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bruton v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Whitehead

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

  1. “knowingly participated with [her coventurers] in the commission of [an] [un]armed robbery and shared the necessary intent for the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “by applying actual force to the victim or putting the victim in fear through the use of threatening words or gestures.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[took] money or other property from the victim,”
    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.