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← 476 MASS 202 - Commonwealth v. Grassie

Commonwealth v. Grassie’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Walden · Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.

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

  1. “a trial judge has broad authority to reduce a jury's verdict, despite the presence of legally sufficient evidence to support it.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “be recorded in a manner that permits reproduction and transcription.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “current practices employed by the various district attorneys and the Attorney General before considering an extension of the rule adopted in [ Walczak , 463 Mass. 808 , 979 N.E.2d 732 ,] to similar types of grand jury proceedings involving adults.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.