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← 479 Mass. 562 - Commonwealth v. Almeida

Commonwealth v. Almeida’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

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

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Crayton · Commonwealth v. West · Commonwealth v. Cordle · Commonwealth v. Donahue · Commonwealth v. Stuckich

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. “[t]he judge also provided a limiting instruction to the jury regarding the prior bad act evidence when it was offered and again in his final charge, thus minimizing any prejudicial effect.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the better practice is to instruct on omissions in the prior inconsistent statement instruction where omissions are at issue.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the standard of review that applies to [the] claim is whether there was a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice”
    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.