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← 52 MASSAPPCT 120 - Commonwealth v. Moore

Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Rock v. Arkansas · People v. Curtis · State v. Hutchinson · Commonwealth v. Connor

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

  1. “the decision whether to reopen a case ... cannot be made in an arbitrary or capricious manner,”
    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.