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← 469 Mass. 652 - Commonwealth v. Wall

Commonwealth v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
February 2023
most recently cited

2 district · 18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2023

2 district · 18 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Goldberg v. Ellett · United States v. Marcus · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Flebotte

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

  1. “). Therefore, the question is whether this error created a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice. Despite trial counsel's errors, her approach to the trial was consistent with the motion judge's determination that she”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Relevant evidence is admissible as long as the probative value of the evidence is not substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “almost four years after he filed his first motion for a new trial, and over seven years after his conviction”
    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.