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← 67 MASSAPPCT 309 - Commonwealth v. Brien

Commonwealth v. Brien’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2022
most recently cited

6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2022

6 state decisions

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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 29 Mass. App. Ct. 225 - Commonwealth v. Gagliardi · Commonwealth v. Green · Commonwealth v. Fossa · Commonwealth v. Janvrin

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

  1. “[a] defendant seeking relief as a result of delayed disclosure has the burden of showing that he was prejudiced by the delay.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he legislative scheme -- providing strict liability for administrative sanctions . . . while in contrast requiring scienter for criminal prosecution -- is set forth unambiguously.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “abandoning or failing to perform, without justification, any contract or project engaged in or undertaken by a registered contractor or subcontractor.”
    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.