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← 475 MASS 254 - Commonwealth v. Mayotte

Commonwealth v. Mayotte’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Flebotte · United States v. Grubbs · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Woodward · Commonwealth v. Stuckich

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. “Where there is a substantial risk that the defendant was convicted of a crime for which he was not indicted by a grand jury, we cannot apply a harmless error standard.... Instead, we must reverse the convictions”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “exists to facilitate credibility determinations where an allegation of sexual assault is at issue.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the error[ ] did not influence the jury or had but very slight effect”
    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.