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← 49 MASSAPPCT 539 - Commonwealth v. Pease

Commonwealth v. Pease’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Addington v. Texas · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. Catalina

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

  1. “factual inconsistencies in verdicts rendered on ... multiple counts do not afford a ground for setting aside a conviction as long as the evidence is sufficient to support a conviction on the count on which the guilty verdict was reached.” Commonwealth v. Pease, 49 Mass.App.Ct. 539 , 731 N.E.2d 92 , 95 (2000); see also United States v. Lopez, 944 F.2d 33 , 41 (1st Cir.1991) (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]hrusting a recently used hypodermic needle at [an officer] involved a high degree of likelihood that substantial harm would result to [the officer]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “creating the requisite level of risk of physical harm to sustain a conviction of manslaughter”
    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.