Commonwealth v. Foreman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Alphas · 22 Mass. App. Ct. 10 - Commonwealth v. Miranda · Frizado v. Frizado · Commonwealth v. Gil · Boston Herald, Inc. v. Sharpe
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the facts the jury had to decide in the criminal case before it were different from the facts that gave rise to the 209A order, and (2) there were other, legitimate reasons for the introduction of the 209A order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would likely appear [to the jury] that a judge had already reviewed the facts and decided the credibility dispute that the jury were being asked to consider.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The order, in that context, was critical,”
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.