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← 479 Mass. 225 - Commonwealth v. Escobar

Commonwealth v. Escobar’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Jordan v. De George · Commonwealth v. Zone Book, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Levia · Boston Police Patrolmen's Ass'n v. City of Boston · Pyle v. School Committee

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

  1. “the meaning of [the] statute is not clear from its plain language, well-established principles of statutory construction guide our interpretation”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “term with multiple meanings may have only one within context of statute”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “must be reasonable and supported by the ... history of the statute.”
    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.