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← 465 MASS 895 - Commonwealth v. Franklin

Commonwealth v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Bowden · State v. Green · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

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

  1. “we are not persuaded that ... including an instruction on good faith error in identification[ ] would have been 'likely to have influenced the jury's conclusion.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the reliability of a positive eyewitness identification is an important issue at trial,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “does not ... convert this court into a second jury.”
    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.