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← 466 MASS 467 - Commonwealth v. Cumming

Commonwealth v. Cumming’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Scott · Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. v. Blankenship · Lopez v. Monterey County · Commonwealth v. Holmgren · Aldoupolis v. Commonwealth

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

  1. “restructuring [of] the 'final' lawful portions of the defendant’s sentences under rule 30(a) ... [had] not placed [the defendant] twice in jeopardy.” 995 N.E.2d at 1097 . The court further observed that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “correct the sentence then being served upon the ground that [it] was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “It would not be possible to sever the CPSL requirement without fundamentally altering that judge's original intent”
    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.