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← 77 MASSAPPCT 1 - Commonwealth v. Weeks

Commonwealth v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
3
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Kirby v. United States

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

  1. “Business and public records are generally admissible absent confrontation not because they qualify under an exception to the hearsay rules, but because -- having been created for the administration of an entity's affairs and not for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact at trial -- they are not testimonial.”
    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.