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← 472 MASS 665 - Commonwealth v. Niemic

Commonwealth v. Niemic’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Doyle v. Ohio · Goldberg v. Ellett · McGinnis v. Hadix · Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Commonwealth v. Wright

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

  1. “[t]his was a case where the prosecutor was confronting the defendant with his prearrest statements, and impeaching him with inconsistencies between those statements and his trial testimony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The prosecutor was entitled to cross-examine the defendant about those inconsistencies, including any omissions in those statements that were different from his trial testimony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “prosecutor did not mention the matter in his closing argument, thus keeping any prejudice at a minimum”
    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.