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← 472 MASS 587 - Commonwealth v. Camacho

Commonwealth v. Camacho’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Lafler v. Cooper · McGinnis v. Hadix · 2 Cal. 4th 924 - In Re Alvernaz

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

  1. “Additionally, the defendant must make a prima facie showing that the evidence sought would have materially benefited the defense and would have factored into the jury's deliberations.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The jury have the ability to discount hyperbole and other improper statements, ... and trial judge's instructions are generally adequate [to] cure errors in the arguments.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[S]udden combat is among those circumstances constituting reasonable provocation.”
    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.