6 Mass. App. Ct. 73 - Commonwealth v. Labbe’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 16 Mass. App. Ct. 163 - Terrio v. McDONOUGH HARTFORD FIRE INS. CO. (1983), State v. Dumlao (1985)
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · Namet v. United States · 17 Cal. 3d 399 - Landeros v. Flood · 18 Cal. App. 3d 504 - People v. Jackson · Commonwealth v. Montecalvo
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he evidence of Jason's frequent injuries prior to October 29 (the date of his death) was admissible to show that someone in a custodial relation to Jason bore him ill will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Labbe v. Berman“makes a conscious and flagrant attempt to build its case out of inferences arising from (the) use of the testimonial privilege”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Labbe v. Berman
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.