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← 57 MASSAPPCT 377 - Commonwealth v. Rupp

Commonwealth v. Rupp’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Illinois v. Wardlow · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman

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

  1. “tended to trivialize the concept of reasonable doubt,”
    2 later decisions 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.