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← 65 MASSAPPCT 750 - Commonwealth v. Casanova

Commonwealth v. Casanova’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Commonwealth v. Durling · Glaubius v. State · Enrich v. Windmere Corp. · Commonwealth v. Boucher

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

  1. “[f]indings that are based on credibility assessments are uniquely the province of the trial judge and we will not disturb them on appeal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “full contours of restitution, or the differences between restitution and the damages that are compensable in a civil action.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “judge was in the best position to determine matters of credibility”
    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.