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← 477 MASS 399 - Commonwealth v. Mora

Commonwealth v. Mora’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Stoker v. Texas · Commonwealth v. White · Commonwealth v. Jones

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

  1. “[b]ecause the crime of robbery can encompass conduct satisfying one of several definitions, not all of which are violent, to determine whether robbery is a violent crime for purposes of the act, the Commonwealth must provide not only the certified record of conviction but also evidence of the circumstances surrounding the robbery.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “has as an element the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the affidavit did not reveal a nexus between his activities and the safe”
    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.