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← 55 MASSAPPCT 514 - Commonwealth v. Kenney

Commonwealth v. Kenney’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Pike · Luk v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Babb · Brach v. Chief Justice of District Court Department · Commonwealth v. Pappas

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

  1. “The defendant makes no contention that the 'no-fix' ticket manipulation aspect of the statute is implicated. Rather, the defendant's principal claim rests upon the notice provision”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “per se rule of dismissal, even though a citation did not issue in compliance with the statute”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “thrust the victim forty-three feet forward”
    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.