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← 480 Mass. 299 - Commonwealth v. Alvarez

Commonwealth v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Doerr v. Doerr · Western Farm Credit Bank v. Fobian · Sorrell v. Dayton Women's Health Center, Inc. · White v. Burdick · Commonwealth v. Flebotte

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

  1. “The uncorroborated testimony of a child is sufficient to support a conviction of sexual assault ...”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “in some circumstances, a facially proper jury instruction . . . may reasonably be understood by the jury to negate or undercut”
    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.