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← 48 MASSAPPCT 727 - Commonwealth v. Hall

Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. White · Commonwealth v. Cuffie

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

  1. “[W]here 'error pertains to the definition given to the jury of the crime charged, the possibility of a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice is inherent'”
    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.