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← 476 MASS 141 - Commonwealth v. Resende

Commonwealth v. Resende’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

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

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bruton v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Gray v. Maryland · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Alphas

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. “was not reasonable, we conclude that there was no substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice in the prosecutor's statements. While the remarks should not have been made, the judge properly instructed the jury that closing arguments are not evidence and that they must”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “under continuing jeopardy during the pendency of the prosecution, rather than ... at risk of double jeopardy.”
    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.