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← 480 Mass. 562 - Commonwealth v. Perez

Commonwealth v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
3
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Miller v. Alabama · Miller v. Alabama · Graham v. Florida

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. “Where a defendant claims that a judge has made an error of constitutional dimension, 'we accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error and leave to the judge the responsibility of determining the weight and credibility to be given ... testimony presented at the motion hearing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the factors relevant to the decision ... such that the decision falls outside the range of reasonable alternatives.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “We review the denial of a motion brought under [ rule 30 (a) ] for abuse of discretion or error of law.”
    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.