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← 67 MASSAPPCT 788 - Commonwealth v. Martinez

Commonwealth v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Kirby v. Illinois · Bates v. State Bar · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n

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. “[i]t is entirely reasonable to assume that the trial judge realized that [any misstatements by] the prosecutor[ ] ... did not have evidentiary value.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a]bsent evidence to the contrary, a trial judge acting as trier of fact is presumed to apply correct legal principles”
    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.