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← 474 MASS 690 - Commonwealth v. Lopez

Commonwealth v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald · Commonwealth v. Harrington · Commonwealth v. Wilson · Commonwealth v. Pike · Vasquez v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CA

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. “exploit the absence of evidence that was excluded at his or her request.”
    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.