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← 76 MASSAPPCT 702 - Commonwealth v. Humphries

Commonwealth v. Humphries’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Crawford v. Washington · State of New Hampshire v. State of Maine · Fahy v. Connecticut · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

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

  1. “beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had knowledge of the contraband, coupled with the ability and intention to exercise dominion and control over it.”
    2 later decisions 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.