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← 474 MASS 486 - Commonwealth v. Broom

Commonwealth v. Broom’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2703 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)

Relies on Teague v. Lane · Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co. · Shields v. United States · Commonwealth v. Curtis · Commonwealth v. Connolly

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

  1. “Commonwealth v. Estabrook, 472 Mass. 852, 858-859 (2015). For example,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice,”
    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.