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← 66 MASSAPPCT 390 - Commonwealth v. Hall

Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Chalifoux · Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe · Commonwealth v. Dougan · Commonwealth v. Montanino

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

  1. “[t]he Commonwealth had a substantial and legitimate interest in rehabilitating its witness by showing why the witness informed [the police] about the defendant's alleged conduct after a long period of silence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[p]rior bad act evidence may ... be admitted where it 'tend[s] to rehabilitate the Commonwealth's witness by explaining why, after a long period of silence, she complained of the defendant's conduct.'”
    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.