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← 63 MASSAPPCT 753 - Commonwealth v. Murphy

Commonwealth v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 10 Mass. App. Ct. 618 - Commonwealth v. Carter · Commonwealth v. Milton · Libby v. Commissioner of Correction · 11 Mass. App. Ct. 975 - Commonwealth v. Aquafresca · Gardner v. Commissioner of Correction

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

  1. “[A] defendant is generally entitled to [credit for] all of the time he spent in custody awaiting trial, but not more than that.”
    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.