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← 481 Mass. 255 - Commonwealth v. Copeland

Commonwealth v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis

2019

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Moran · Commonwealth v. Sheline

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

  1. “for a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice by asking whether there was error and, if so, whether the error 'was likely to have influenced the jury's conclusion.'”
    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.