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← 49 MASSAPPCT 7 - Commonwealth v. Riberio

Commonwealth v. Riberio’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Price v. Georgia · Commonwealth v. Cunneen · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Luk v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Mamay

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

  1. “A mistrial 'ought to be [declared] with the greatest caution, under urgent circumstances, and for very plain and obvious causes.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]elling the jury that the victims have no reason to lie is over the line of permissible advocacy ....”
    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.