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← 52 MASSAPPCT 770 - Commonwealth v. Zavala

Commonwealth v. Zavala’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman · Commonwealth v. Ciampa · Commonwealth v. Woods · Commonwealth v. Andrews

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

  1. “After review of the entire record, we reject the defendant's argument that there were several errors which, although individually insufficient to require reversal, cumulatively present a substantial risk of miscarriage of justice.”
    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.