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← 57 MASSAPPCT 759 - Commonwealth v. Cates

Commonwealth v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

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

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Durling · Commonwealth v. Keizer · Commonwealth v. Lavalley · Commonwealth v. Diaz · Commonwealth v. Hill

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. “judge responsible for determining the weight and credibility of evidence at revocation hearing”
    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.