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← 474 MASS 372 - Commonwealth v. Stevenson

Commonwealth v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Costello v. United States · United States v. Williams · United States v. Mandujano · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. McCarthy

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. “at the very least the grand jury must hear sufficient evidence to establish the identity of the accused ... and probable cause to arrest him”
    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.