Jacobs v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1998
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stone v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Harness v. Commonwealth · Coates v. Commonwealth · Sanders v. Drane
Most-quoted passages
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“If either a defendant or the commonwealth requests it, the judge may exclude from the hearing or trial any witness of the adverse party not at the time under examination, so that he may not hear the testimony of the other witnesses. This provision shall not apply to the parties to the proceeding. Strict compliance with this rule is not mandatory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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