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← 482 Mass. 190 - Commonwealth v. Espinal

Commonwealth v. Espinal’s Empirical Analysis

2019

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2022
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hernandez v. New York · Rosales-Lopez v. United States · Shieh v. State Bar · White v. Burdick · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth

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

  1. “victims will promptly disclose a sexual attack' and that 'the absence of a timely complaint suggests fabrication.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “unless it is from the first complaint witness or in response to a defense theory.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[in King], [w]e sought to disabuse the jury of the misapprehensions that '”
    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.