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← 51 MASSAPPCT 901 - Commonwealth v. Ramos

Commonwealth v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Hulsey v. Arkansas · Commonwealth v. Brzezinski · Commonwealth v. Martino · Commonwealth v. Garcia

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

  1. “points to the defendant's guilt and constitutes additional evidence that tips the scale in favor of sufficiency. We reject this”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “argument because it piles inference upon inference[,] which cannot form the basis of a conviction.”
    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.