Commonwealth v. Sepheus’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Freeman v. United States · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Davis v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to be measured upon that which was admitted in evidence without regard to the propriety of the admission.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'correctly instructed himself' on the law of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in the judge's decision likely refers to the defendant's supplemental affidavit. 6 The defendant here brings a claim for ineffective assistance under only the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because we find that remand is necessary under either the Sixth Amendment or art. 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, we once again”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lys
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.