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← 476 MASS 351 - Commonwealth v. Bryan

Commonwealth v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Oregon v. Kennedy · Maher v. Roe · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Ginsburg v. Stern

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

  1. “made 'a clear error of judgment in weighing' the [relevant] factors”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “falls outside the range of reasonable alternatives.”
    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.