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← 80 MASSAPPCT 819 - Commonwealth v. Linhares

Commonwealth v. Linhares’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Armstrong · Commonwealth v. Turner · 24 Mass. App. Ct. 317 - Commonwealth v. Torres · Commonwealth v. Walker

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

  1. “[T]he defendant did not appeal from the judge's allowance of the motion to file a late notice of appeal or from the denial of his motion for reconsideration; he also did not file a cross appeal or move to dismiss the appeal”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “properly appealed from the order allowing the motion to file a late notice of appeal or moved to dismiss the appeal, ... the matter [was] not properly before us.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “that a challenge to the lateness of an appeal is jurisdictional, and that such a challenge is appropriate at any stage of the proceeding.”
    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.