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← 50 MASSAPPCT 730 - Commonwealth v. Moore

Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Western Farm Credit Bank v. Fobian · Ginsburg v. Stern · Commonwealth v. Longo · Commonwealth v. Lewis

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

  1. “A person's knowledge or intent is a matter of fact, which is often not susceptible of proof by direct evidence, so resort is frequently made to proof by inference from all the facts and circumstances developed at the trial .... The inferences drawn by the jury need only be reasonable and possible and need not be necessary or inescapable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “no person lawfully therein being put in fear”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.