Commonwealth v. Cutty’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
July 2022
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Herring v. New York · Commonwealth v. Bowden · 22 Mass. App. Ct. 10 - Commonwealth v. Miranda · Commonwealth v. Earltop · Commonwealth v. Montecalvo
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.
“[h]owever broad the discretion of the trial judge may be to limit the scope of closings so as to guard against repetitive, redundant, and otherwise improper arguments to the jury, such power cannot extend to total preclusion of relevant arguments that `remain within the bounds of the evidence and the fair inferences from the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“relevant arguments that 'remain within the bounds of the evidence and the fair inferences from the evidence,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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