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← 467 MASS 25 - Commonwealth v. Keo

Commonwealth v. Keo’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Imbler v. Pachtman · Berger v. United States · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc · Sawyer v. Whitley

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

  1. “the lesser punishment under G. L. c. 265, § 2, of mandatory life in prison with the possibility of parole, set pursuant to the parole eligibility statute in effect at the time of the juvenile offender's crime, would apply”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “not that it shall win a case, but [instead, to see] that justice shall be done.”
    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.