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← 56 MASSAPPCT 621 - Commonwealth v. Molle

Commonwealth v. Molle’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Mello

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

  1. “[t]here was no reason for the jury to reach any such issue and little likelihood that they might have done so from the evidence presented to them.”
    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.