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← 48 MASSAPPCT 658 - Commonwealth v. White

Commonwealth v. White’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Roberts · Commonwealth v. Swenson · Commonwealth v. Bianco

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

  1. “'[t]he appearance and interests of justice [would] be better served by resentencing' ... before a different judge.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “freely place on record [her] sentencing philosophy and particularized sentencing rationale”
    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.