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← 60 MASSAPPCT 122 - Commonwealth v. Delong

Commonwealth v. Delong’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Adams · Commonwealth v. Hoffer · Commonwealth v. Rondeau

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

  1. “We hold that it was a reasonable tactical decision not to request a limiting instruction, as such instructions typically highlight the permissible uses of evidence, as well as the limitations.”
    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.