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← 468 MASS 391 - Commonwealth v. Tassone

Commonwealth v. Tassone’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Crawford v. Washington · Gregg v. Georgia · Marks v. United States · 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “our common law of evidence requires that the defendant have a meaningful opportunity to cross-examine the expert about her opinion and the reliability of the facts or data that underlie her opinion”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “denied the opportunity to explore through cross-examination whether the opinion [was] flawed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.