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← 78 MASSAPPCT 215 - Commonwealth v. Quinones

Commonwealth v. Quinones’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To support a conviction on the charge of armed robbery while masked, the Commonwealth, proceeding on a joint venture theory of the defendant's guilt, had the burden of proving that the defendant knew that the principal perpetrators of the robbery ... would be Page 283 both armed and masked.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The jury may infer the requisite mental state from the defendant's knowledge of the attendant circumstances and his subsequent participation in the offense”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “materially influence the guilty verdict,”
    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.