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← 78 MASSAPPCT 671 - Commonwealth v. Amaral

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “[t]he actions of the defendant himself served to authenticate the e-mails,”
    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.