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← 472 MASS 815 - Commonwealth v. Scott

Commonwealth v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Massa v. United States · Commonwealth v. Raymond · Commonwealth v. Gunter

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

  1. “on a case-by-case basis [and] with reference to specific facts.”
    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.