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← 475 MASS 212 - Commonwealth v. Miller

Commonwealth v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Salvucci · Chambers v. United States · Commonwealth v. Scott · United States v. Weiner · Commonwealth v. King

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

  1. “Defects in the chain of custody of otherwise admissible evidence go to the weight of the evidence, as opposed to the admissibility of the evidence.”
    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.