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← 464 MASS 855 - Commonwealth v. Carr

Commonwealth v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
November 2023
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Crawford v. Washington · Simmons v. United States · Doggett v. United States · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Company

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

  1. “Dismissal of an indictment based on impairment of the grand jury proceedings requires proof of three elements: (1) the Commonwealth knowingly or recklessly presented false or deceptive evidence to the grand jury; (2) the evidence was presented for the purpose of obtaining an indictment; and (3) the evidence probably influenced the grand jury's decision to indict.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “increase[d] potential for inappropriate prejudice to the defendant stemming from identification testimony from a police officer who is so designated”
    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.