Commonwealth v. Amaral’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
6
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Weichell · Wingate v. Emery Air Freight Corp. · Commonwealth v. Koney · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Glacken
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fatal to the defendant were the actions he took in conformity with the information contained in [the messages]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would be at a certain place at a certain time, and the defendant appeared at that place and time”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he actions of the defendant himself served to authenticate the e-mails,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State
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.