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Tavares v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Martinez · Commonwealth v. Tavares · Commonwealth v. Morgan · Donald 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An established route for the petitioner to obtain appellate review of the denial of his motion for postconviction discovery [and the other motions ancillary to his motion for a new trial] would be in connection with an appeal from the denial of his motion for a new trial.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Mass. R. Crim. P. 30(c)(8), as appearing in 435 Mass. 1501 (2001). The”
    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.