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← 477 MASS 499 - Commonwealth v. Hammond

Commonwealth v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · DiCarlantonio v. United States · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth

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

  1. “[W]e must and do recognize that closing argument is identified as argument, the jury understand[ ] that, instructions from the judge inform the jury that closing argument is not evidence, and instructions may mitigate any prejudice in the final argument.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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