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← 475 MASS 541 - Commonwealth v. Obi

Commonwealth v. Obi’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Virginia · Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC ASSOCIATES · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · United States v. Consuelo-Gonzalez

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. “The principal goals of probation are rehabilitation of the defendant and protection of the public.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the judge observed that the juror's headscarf was of a type traditionally worn by Muslim women”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “so long as the condition is 'reasonably related' to the goals of sentencing and probation.”
    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.