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← 473 MASS 1017 - Commonwealth v. Forlizzi

Commonwealth v. Forlizzi’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Commonwealth v. Cook · Commonwealth v. Charles · Commonwealth v. Kelsey · Commonwealth v. Richardson

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

  1. “[t]he Superior Court judge's determination that disclosure [was] 'relevant and helpful to the defense of an accused' ... is precisely the type of routine interlocutory ruling for which review under G. L. c. 211, § 3, ordinarily is not warranted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[n]o party, including the Commonwealth, should expect this court to exercise its extraordinary power of general superintendence lightly.”
    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.