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← 82 MASSAPPCT 172 - Commonwealth v. Myers

Commonwealth v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. United States · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Jones v. Barnes · Taylor v. Illinois

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

  1. “very short list of rights ... that must be waived personally by a defendant and cannot be waived by his counsel.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “could have returned to the vehicle and recovered a hidden weapon”
    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.