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← 465 MASS 520 - Commonwealth v. Chambers

Commonwealth v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · 104 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Lynch · Commonwealth v. Vinnie · Commonwealth v. Carrion

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. “fair assurance that the errors 'did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect'”
    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.