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← 59 MASSAPPCT 497 - Commonwealth v. Thad T.

Commonwealth v. Thad T.’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Doyle v. Ohio · Greer v. Miller · Anthony v. United States · Commonwealth v. Tavares · Commonwealth v. Lanigan

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

  1. “[We] shall not assume that jurors will slight strong and precise instructions of the trial judge to disregard the matters which have been withdrawn from their consideration.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Only a compelling showing of ineradicable prejudice would cause us to conclude that the judge's instructions to disregard [the witness's] testimony were inadequate”
    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.