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← 467 MASS 434 - Commonwealth v. Meas

Commonwealth v. Meas’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited

22 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Stovall v. Denno · Davis v. Alaska · Bates v. State Bar

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

  1. “[W]e accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error but conduct an independent review of [the judge's] ultimate findings and conclusions of law.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Each case is fact dependent and the existence of good reason presents a question of law for the appellate court to resolve on the facts found by the motion judge.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the usefulness of prompt confirmation of the accuracy of investigatory information, which if in error, will release the police quickly to follow another track”
    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.