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← 475 MASS 20 - Commonwealth v. Philbrook

Commonwealth v. Philbrook’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Tanner v. United States · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. McHoul · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Simpson

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

  1. “determination of a juror's impartiality is essentially one of credibility, and therefore largely one of demeanor, [a reviewing] court give[s] a trial judge's determination of impartiality great deference”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Article 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantee a criminal defendant the right to a trial before an impartial jury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “is one of the ways in which to safeguard a defendant's right to trial before an impartial jury. Philbrook , supra . Accordingly, extraneous influences on jurors present a”
    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.