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← 78 MASSAPPCT 492 - Commonwealth v. Revells

Commonwealth v. Revells’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

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

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Randolph · United States v. Grubbs · Commonwealth v. King

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. “a single, tightly intertwined oral and written communication,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1127 - Commonwealth v. Bilodeau · 101 Mass. App. Ct. 337 - COMMONWEALTH v. RUBIN HOLGUIN, JR.
  2. “Consequently, the entire communication to the mother was the first complaint and was properly admitted 'to give the jury as complete a picture as possible of how the accusation of sexual assault first arose.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 101 Mass. App. Ct. 337 - COMMONWEALTH v. RUBIN HOLGUIN, JR.
  3. “was not a separate complaint, but part and parcel of the entire communication to the mother.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 101 Mass. App. Ct. 337 - COMMONWEALTH v. RUBIN HOLGUIN, JR.

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.