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← 50 MASSAPPCT 565 - Commonwealth v. Hunt

Commonwealth v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Griffith v. United States · Roberts v. Florida · Kilcullen v. United States

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

  1. “[W]hen a defendant possesses property 'recently' stolen, that possession alone is a sufficient basis for the jury to infer that he knows it to be stolen”
    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.