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← 480 Mass. 55 - Commonwealth v. Combs

Commonwealth v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Lao · Commonwealth v. Kelley

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

  1. “Proof of an essential element of a crime may be based on reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence, but it may not be based on conjecture.”
    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.