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← 477 MASS 658 - Commonwealth v. Barbosa

Commonwealth v. Barbosa’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

29 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Kozec · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. Mello

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

  1. “that the defendant knowingly participated in the commission of the crime charged”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[1] there [was] an occurrence or event sufficiently startling to render inoperative the normal reflective thought processes of the observer, and [2] the declarant's statement was a spontaneous reaction to the occurrence or event and not the result of reflective thought.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “extensive experience with [the] gangs generally, and with the victim and the defendant specifically, qualified him as an expert and provided direct personal knowledge for the testimony he offered.”
    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.