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← 466 MASS 316 - Commonwealth v. Felt

Commonwealth v. Felt’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Bruno · Insurance Rating Board v. Commissioner of Insurance · Commonwealth v. WAYNE W. · Commonwealth v. Wynton W. · Commonwealth v. Gagnon

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

  1. “Where the Legislature uses the same words in several sections which concern the same subject matter, the words 'must be presumed to have been used with the same meaning in each section”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “in a manner that makes them consistent with one another.”
    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.